2014
Midweek Update – the sad fate of Gilad, Naftali and Eyal
140630 30th June 2014 I am furious, sad, brokenhearted and filled with despair. I don’t understand how or why the terrorists made the coldhearted decision to dress up as religious Jews and offer a lift to three young hitch-hikers, children really, and kill them within a short time leaving the families to believe there was…
Read MoreShabbat Shalom from Jerusalem – Naftali Frankel, Gilad Sha’ar and Eyal Yifrah, Andrew White,ISIS,
140627 27th June 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear Friends. I hope this letter finds you well and that your loved ones are well too. As you can well imagine we are all deeply involved in the search for the 3 boys so cruelly kidnapped by Hamas. The incredible work done by the IDF and the Shabak have…
Read MoreShabbat Shalom from Jerusalem – Bring Back Our Boys, Mohammad Zoabi, La Traviata,
140620 20th June 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. It is a sad letter today, very sad. Yes of course we did some lovely things this week but with a heavy heart. Three of our beautiful children were kidnapped and are now suffering a horrible existence, if they are alive, at the hands of Hamas. We know…
Read MoreShabbat Shalom from Jerusalem – Iraq, President, Kaz,
140613 Friday 13th of June 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends, Last night I sat on the hammock on our veranda (mirpesset) talking to my beloved sister on Skype and trying to decide what on earth to write to you today. Jerusalem spread before me, but for once it did not calm me despite a wonderful…
Read MoreShabbat Shalom from Jerusalem – D-Day, 6 Day War, Australia, Hamas Fatah government, Rolling Stones, Moshiko, Shevuot
140606 6th June 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope this missive finds you well. This is indeed a week of anniversaries of historic events. 70 years ago the  D-Day landings and the ensuing battles began http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27727518 The day’s commemorations began at midnight with a vigil at Pegasus Bridge near Ouistreham, marking the first assault of the D-Day…
Read MoreShabbat Shalom from Sheila – Yom Yerushalyim, MWU,
140530 30th May 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope you had a good week. In Israel we celebrated Yom Yerushalyim, Jerusalem Day,  47 years since the re-unification of this great city after 19 years  of enforced division, half Jordanian, half Israeli. The Old City was in the hands of the Jordanians and I remember…
Read MoreShabbat Shalom from Jerusalem – Paris, Maccabi Tel Aviv European Cup, HH Pope Francis, Jay Leno, Michael Bloomberg
140523 23rd May 2014 Shabbat Shalom from wonderfully fresh and sunny Jerusalem! Now the truth can be told about our whereabouts last weekend. We were in Paris but I couldn’t tell you because we went for a surprise birthday party for one of my readers. Actually it is not just one of my readers, it…
Read MoreShabbat Shalom from Jerusalem – Canon White, Anitsemitism, Christians in Bethlehem,Zimmet, new grandson
140515 15th May 2014 Dear Friends, Shabbat Shalom Why is this Shabbat different from all other Shabbatot? Because last Shabbat our newest, youngest and very wonderful little grandson came into the world and today he came home from hospital. A lovely little boy was born to Amiad and Noga, 5 weeks early, he was clearly…
Read MoreShabbat Shalom from Jerusalem. Remembrance and Independence
140508 8th May 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Shabbat Shalom from a 66 year old Israel, even more beautiful then she was at age 65!!!! I often say I don’t know where to begin but this week I don’t know where to stop!! I feel that we fitted at least two weeks into this last…
Read MoreShabbat Shalom from Jerusalem. Israeli Independence Day 66 and mourning, Kerry
140502 2nd May, 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. This week is filled with waves of emotion taking us from Yom ha Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, through Remembrance Day to the joy of Yom Haatzma’ut – Independence Day. On Yom ha Shoah we ate breakfast in the German Colony with John and Adrienne Kraus and their daughter, chatting…
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