131227 27th December 2013 Shabbat Shalom to all my wonderful friends – I hope you had a good festive season and to my Christian friends, I pray that you had a peaceful one. Tis the third day of Christmas and instead of joy, love and peace the world appears to have gone mad. Killing Christians has…

131220 20th December 2013. Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope this missive finds you well. First and foremost I must apologise for last weeks typos. Of course it was Mandela not Mandel.  I was probably traumatised by the snow!!!! Miracle after miracle after miracle – Kinneret Chaya just gave birth to a baby boy. The ultimate revenge…

131213 12th December 2013 Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem – gosh that sounds good!!! I don’t think it will be a white Christmas but it surely is a white advent!!!! We had 50 cms of snow last night and the city is closed. Yesterday I went to see Rachel and family in Givat Zeev and got stuck…

131206 Friday 6th December 2013 Shabbat Shalom dear friends, Shabbat Shalom from Chiang Mai, Thailand It will soon be Shabbat but I wanted to send you a quick greeting. Today we rode elephants, went in a cart drawn by oxen, Zvi travelled down river on a bamboo raft (I had a well deserved coffee) and…

131129 29th November 2013 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Shabbat Shalom from Sydney Australia This week Zvi and I received some very sad news. A dear dear friend, Guiora Esrubilsky,  passed away suddenly and prematurely in Florida. The official obituaries will tell you that Guiora was the President of Maccabi World Union, Vice-President of the World…

22nd November 2013 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Shabbat Shalom and G’day Mates!!!! Did you know that Australia is a very very long way from Israel? I have developed a new respect for our Australian friends who make that trip twice a year to visit friends, to attend meetings and support the organisations they are proud…

131114 14th November 2013 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Shabbat Shalom Picture a young illegal, crossing your border to search for work, illegally, and deciding that if he doesn’t find work that day he will kill a soldier so that he can go to an Israeli jail, get himself an education and be fed well (Halal food of…

131108 8th November 2013 Shabbat Shalom to everyone but a very special Shabbat Shalom to my daughter Rachel who celebrates her Gregorian 40th birthday today, having celebrated her Hebrew date three weeks ago. Our news has been full of admissions to pot smoking by various Members of Knesset – in particular Yair Lapid and Shelley Yachimovitch, bot leaders…

131101 1st November 2013 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Thank you so much for your good wishes and prayers for my daughter. She is slowly doing much better thank you. Thank- G-d a million times she is a strong woman surrounded by love. Her friends are amazing and her religious community has rallied to her side with…

131025 25th October 2013 Shabbat Shalom everyone. Yes I know I didn’t write last week but the reason will become clear in a minute or two. Haim Saban lives in Los Angeles but his heart remains in Israel. Each year he throws a bigger and bigger bash for the Friends of the IDF and this year was…