140214 14th February 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Shabbat Shalom and since I love to love whatever the source, Happy Valentines Day. To make it a truly Israeli affair let’s see why Sarah Tuttle-Singer loves Israel as her Valentine. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-love-israel-and-have-the-pictures-to-prove-it/ Today is a glorious day, sun and crisp air, knowing that rain will come tomorrow. Has anyone…

140207 7th February 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope this letter finds you well. It was inevitable. It has been brewing for almost 60 years and creating more and more division and fury in Israeli society and yesterday it overflowed into violent demonstrations in Jerusalem, B’nei Brak and other place. The Haredi community is furious.…

140131 31st January, 2014 Hello, Shalom, Bonjour, buenos dias, Yachi da, g’day mates, Salaam and of course Good Shabbes, Shabbat Shalom This has been a fascinating week. A Hollywood starlet proved that she is a moral example to us all when Scarlett Johansson stood up to the BDS and Oxfam after doing the major Sodastream advertisement. Oxfam decided that Johansson,…

140124 24th January 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Hope you had a good week and you are in a good mood because there is a vast amount of news this week, although I promise to skip through the tough ones. Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper spoke with both conviction and emotion in the Knessethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZmbQG0I5lo and amused the…

140117 17th January 2014. Shabbat Shalom dear Friends. How are you? I hope you are well. Clearly the event of greatest importance this week in Israel was the funeral for Ariel Sharon. We were honoured that both Tony Blairand Joe Biden came to pay their respects since, after all, he was not a serving Prime Minister at the time…

140110 10th January 2014. Shabbat Shalom dear friends, Shabbat Shalom Ariel Sharon is finally losing his greatest battle, the battle to live. The former Prime Minister was a fighter of the old school who understood the importance of defence alongside the search for peace. Ariel Sharon was a farmer and a fighter, a tough leader and romantic…

140103 3rd January 2014. Shabbat Shalom to you all. The first Shabbat Shalom of a new year, of 2014.  I thought of writing a synopsis of the past year but decided that not only have others done so ad nauseum but looking forward is of far greater importance than looking back – unless we can really…