110513 Friday 13th May, 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear friends, I hope this missive finds you well. Isn’t it strange how quickly one falls back into the swing of life? Zvi gets up at 05:30 each morning to go to morning prayers and will continue to do so for the next 11 months. He prays 3…

110509 Mon, 9 May 2011 5th of Iyyar, 5771 – Yom HaZikaron – Israel at 63 – 20th day of the Omer The only sound one could sense over the mournful wailing of the siren was the fluttering of the flag high on its flagpole on our veranda with the view over Jerusalem. Standing to…

MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, ALLA RAVIV, WOMAN OF WORTH Born on September,18th, 1913, in Lodz, Poland, Leah Hendler did not realise what a fascinating life lay in front of her. Her travels began when she was only five months old. Her family, father Meir, mother Golda and big brother, four year old Shmuel, fearing the already extreme…

110422 21st April, 2011 SHABBAT SHALOM AND A PEACEFUL AND CONTEMPLATIVE EASTER. I APOLOGISE FOR THE CAPITAL LETTERS BUT SINCE I SENT MY COMPUTER FOR REPAIR AND REMOVAL OF A PART I DIDN’T NEED IN the FIRST PLACE – I DON’T HAVE A WORKING ‘SHIFT’ BUTTON — WE WILL OVERCOME. THE JEWISH WORLD IS IN…

We must never forget – we must always remember our slavery under the Nazis. The Fabulous Survivor’s Passover Haggadah. By Solly Ganor Munich, April 12, 1946 “There is no such thing as a “bad” or ‘good’ exile. Every exile leads to extinction.” Holocaust survivor Sheinson. The harsh winter of 1946 in Munich was coming to…

110415 April 15th, 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear friends – countdown is on!!! No news this week, just a happy Shabbat Shalom. My hands are too careworn from Pesach cleaning to type! Jerusalem is so clean! I swear that the white stones are glistening, the streets gleaming and the parks have not one sweet wrapper on…

110408 8th of April 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear Friends CALUMNY cal·um·ny (klm-n) 1. A false statement maliciously made to injure another’s reputation. 2. The utterance of maliciously false statements; slander. MK Danny Danon initiated a lawsuit which will be submitted to US District Court in NY: “The distorted picture of the State of Israel that…

110401 1st April 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Despite the date I promise I won’t tell you I saw a Lirpa Loof prancing around the Old City or that I just planted spaghetti trees on the veranda…… or that the Palestinians decided to condemn violence and accept both the existence and the assistance of the…

110325 Friday 25th March 2001 Shabbat Shalom dear friends My greetings this week are mixed with sadness after the bombing in Jerusalem and the rockets in the South of the country. The rockets are not effective at killing but they create traumatised adults and children – robbing youngsters of the right to play outside in…

110323 Wednesday 23rd March 2011 Bomb in Jerusalem next to Binyanei HaUma at a very busy time when children are wending their way home. TV news shows a child’s winter coat in a pool of blood at the bus stop. The 2 kilogramme bomb was placed next to the bus stop to Maaleh Adumim from…