151231 31st December 2015 New Years Eve. Shabbat Shalom to you and yours. May the New Year bring with it a greater sense pf security and a far greater sense of injustice to those who supposedly lead us, wherever or whatever our nation. This has been a tough year on so many levels, yet as always there…

151225 25th December 2015 Dear friends, Shabbat Shalom and of course a truly blessed Christmas to all our Christian friends. This week has been a strange mixture of sheer joy and deep sadness, each entirely separate one from the other. First I will speak of the sadness and then continue to my joy. The attacks continue, one…

151218 18th December 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. This Shabbat is going to be the most wonderful Shabbat – all three of my children are in Jerusalem together – plus my daughter in law and two of the overseas grandchildren. I admit to being greedy and wanting everyone but the sheer joy of knowing I wake…

151211 11th of December 2015 Shabbat shalom dear friends. We send love from our home to yours. Apparently I may have a problem with my original sheerav@gmail.com address, according to a google warning, so in the future you may well receive the letters from sheerav2 or sheerav3 or even sheerav4 so check your spam in case it is…

151203 December 3rd 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I promise that this weeks newsletter will be positive, it has to be positive because otherwise Harold will be disappointed. The last two weeks were filled with loss but life goes on and, in truth, many good things happened this week, even those that are not initially apparent.…

151127 27th November 2015 “Black Friday” Shabbat Shalom dear friends. It is so incongruous that in the United States people are willing to risk life and limb, even get into fisticuffs to buy something they don’t need for the sake of “saving” money when half of the world is in utter turmoil and fighting for its…

151119 19th November 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear Friends I am confused, sad, angry and don’t know where to begin. Perhaps I should begin with the diabolical attacks on Paris, attacks that shook the world and horrified us as we realized the extent and evil intent as trendy Parisians were out for a night of enjoyment; perhaps with…

151112 15th November 2015 Shabbat Shalom everyone – friends, foes, family and acquaintances – may you all live in peace. When the noise around us abates, we find inner peace so please may our enemies find love, conciliation, tolerance, amity, peace………. The world has turned upside down, morals gave way to greed, ethics to politics and…

151106 6th November, 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. The celebration of a man who tried to blow up Parliament on November 5th hundreds of years ago, has been and gone (Guy Fawkes Day) and the celebration of a group of settlers who were oppressed and fled their homes is yet to come in November, Thanksgiving, yet…

151030 30th October 2015 Shabbat shalom to you all, near and far, Jew, Christian and Moslem. May you live in peace and think of peace but most of all pray for peace, work for peace and remember that nothing comes if we just sit back and wait for it. For about 20 years now I have…