150807 7th August, 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. This week I promised our wonderful friend Ron Carner, President of Maccabi USA, that I would dedicate an entire newsletter to the European Maccabiah. Held in the Berlin Stadium that the United States agree to remove two athletes from team USA because they were Jews. Marty Glickman and…

150731 31st July 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear Friends. Extremism is extremism is extremism and when one burns buildings one day people will be inside – that is the Price Tag. Price Tag is the foul group that chose to become terrorists in the name of Judaism – well all I can say is NOT IN MY NAME.…

150724 24th July, 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope you had a good week. For us this has been a very difficult week, interspersed with meeting wonderful people but sad nonetheless. My beloved brother in law, Melvyn, passed away after a brave fight to survive. Melvyn was a quiet man but not quiet in…

150717 Friday, 17th July, 2015, Jerusalem Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I know we are all sick and tired of hearing about Iran so I may just decide to tell you about Persia instead.  Persia isn’t Arab, just in case you were under the illusion perpetrated by the media. Persia was the home of the original Aryans,…

150712 12th July 2015, Dearest Friends, Shevu’a Tov, a Gutte Voch, a good week to you I started to write to you from Greece but then I decided that it was too hard to write on my tablet and waited until today! Here is the beginning from Greece and the remainder from Israel. Shabbat Shalom…

150605 5th June 2015 Shabbat Shalom everyone! How are you this fine Spring day? Are you depressed by the media news or busily finding answers? As my wonderful husband always says “If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem” Before we get to the news I want to tell…

150701 1st July 2015 I hope you are having a good week and that you will have a good Shabbat. We leave for Greece tonight, yes we are taking plenty of cash not relying on banks, and will celebrate Shabbat in Kapernisi. It is always special to hear the entire choir sing Kiddush…… beautiful. So…

150626 26th June 2015 Shabbat Shalom from beautiful Jerusalem!! Yes I am back home. My sojourn in the UK was absolutely wonderful. Family, friends and walking in the green, green parks and playing fields; eating the best food imaginable; going to Sammy’s school fete and dancing with his wheelchair; watching Olivia and Zachary run in…

150618 18th June 2015 Shabbat Shalom from sunny London! Yes it is sunny! Not only is it sunny but I have had the best food in every restaurant and pub and of course my daughter in law cooks the yummiest meals. Pub food is always the best, fresh, sometimes simple but always delicious and sitting outside…

150612 12th June, 2015 Shabbat Shalom from London!! Yes I am in Blighty, land of my birth, to see my gorgeous grandchildren, children siblings and cousins with a dose of friends thrown in. No I don’t go to shows or do the  tourist things, I just immerse myself in the grandchildren. We are all agree that…