120615 15th June 2012 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. This week there is lots of news, good and bad, so I will try to inform you rather than depress you and give you brief information so that you get an overview and can click the link if you want more. In a ceremony at the White House…

120608 8th June 2012 Shabbat Shalom dear friends, Shabbat Shalom to you all with a very special one to my adored big sister Doreen……. happy birthday my love. Thank you for being the most amazing sister in the world and standing by me through thick and thin. Happy birthday to you and your Melvyn. Now to…

I wanted to put the current discussions about the work seekers who flood into Israel from The Sudan and Eritrea into perspective and understand the International uproar at Israels determination to return them from whence they came, excepting the very few genuine asylum seekers. There are many theories as to why they chose Israel, below…

120531 31st May 2012 Shabbat shalom dear friends. It is almost midnight, nearly the first of June, but I had to write to you tonight and now when I am so full of admiration, emotion, hope, sadness and defiance. We just got home from the most incredible, incredible evening. We went to the International Conference Centre…

24th May 2012 Dearest Friends, Shabbat shalom First and foremost I am happy to give you an excellent update on the health of our wonderful friend Canon Andrew White. After returning to Baghdad from Jerusalem Andrew became very ill and gave us all a scare – including himself. A prayer session went across national borders and…

120517 17th May, 2012 Shabbat Shalom everyone! How are you? The BBC has completed its task. That august institution that once upon a time was the ultimate in elegant honest news has become a left-wing, irresponsibly biased organisation which is ungovernable and feels no responsibility to represent those who pay their licence. Never since the days…

5th May 2012 Yes I know it isn’t Shabbat but I wish you a happy Wednesday! Last night I wrote an article for the Times of Israel talking about Yair Lapid, son of Tommy Lapid, who is the new face on the Israeli political scene and uses the old slogans of his father about religious Jews…

120504 4th of May 2012 Shabbat shalom dear friends. Hagai Amir, brother of Yitzchak Rabin’s assassin Igal Amir, was released from prison this morning after serving a 16 year sentence for aiding and abetting his brother in his plot to kill a Prime Minister and change a country. Most of his prison term was spent in solitary…

120424 24th April 2012 Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzma’ut Remembrance Day and Independence Day Israel at 64 – Eshet Chayil I often describe Israeli society as schizophrenic, we accept the trials of life but refuse to be beaten down. Our emotions run the gamut from deep sadness to joy with barely a breath between. This is…

AMERICAN REMEMBRANCE DAY – A DAY FOR THE PEOPLE AND AMERICAN PRIDE AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Dear Mr President, Mr Obama Today is Remembrance Day in Israel and the only television or radio programmes tell the stories of the families left behind, memories of their loved ones who died for their country. The…