120302 2nd March, 2012 Shabbat shalom dear friends. I hope you are all well. This was a busy week in Jerusalem, Zvi was deeply involved in the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency where many discussions of the future of the Jewish World take place. Zvi’s contribution is vociferous and innovative but not always…

120225 25th February 2012 Shabbat Shalom dear friends! It seems that the only country not afraid of Iran is Israel, a fact disconcerting to countries much, much bigger! We live in a tough neighbourhood and bullies are rife, if we were scared of them we would have packed our bags and run years ago. We…

120217 17th February 2012 Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem!!! Yes we are home! We had a wonderful time in Puerto Rico, Miami and New York and although I miss my NY family it is so good to be home! The last week was a blur of friends and of course the glorious Joshua. My little grandson…

120207 7th February 2012 I know it isn’t Shabbat yet or even close, but since we are going to be in New York with my glorious grandson Joshua this weekend I decided to write to you now. Priorities are priorities after all, but I couldn’t let the events of this week go by without comment.…

120203 3rd February 2012 Shabbat Shalom everyone – Shabbat Shalom from Florida!! My goodness me – leave Israel for a couple of weeks and the neighborhood goes berserk! Assad is about to fall – a leader who has wantonly killed his own citizens while the world just tsk tsk’s is finally about to get his…

120126 26th January 2012 Shabbat Shalom lovely people! It seems strange to write ot you when I cannot see the View from our Veranda – nor the preparations for Shabbat which include the frenzied shopping/cooking leading up to the relative calm. We are in Puerto Rico for a very special occasion – the wedding of…

120120 20th January 2012 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope this letter finds you well. The media loves an interesting story. The analogy is always about dogs and biting – that a story is only interesting if man bites dog not if dog bites man. Well, the world media claims that Israeli society is falling…

120113 13th January 2012 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Wishing you a wonderful Friday 13th taking special care of my spelling and what I download on my computer today!!! This has been a good week, despite the news that the USA has rebuked Israel for the “hit” on nuclear scientists in Iran. They have no idea…

120106 6th January 2012 Shabbat shalom everybody. Gosh I am really close to the wire with this weeks missive, but for good reason…………we were out last night and I wanted to bathe my grandchildren to make them squeaky clean for Shabbat then give them chocolates to make them dirty again – a grandmothers right surely!…