150529 29th May, 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I will try to keep this missive short but so many things have happened that it is hard to put them all in one paragraph!! Jibril Rejub, terrorist and representative of the PA, has put forward a motion to bar Israel from FIFA the international Football Association. The…

150522 22nd May, 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope you are all well and that the week was kind to you. A friend sent me a quote. It took me a moment to really absorb it, and accept its truth. The quote is from the movie Exodus. Ari ben Canaan: “Jewish flesh is cheap, lady. It’s…

150515 15th May, 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem, looking exceptionally beautiful today, the sun glistening on the freshly washed white buildings after a real spring shower yesterday. So, Mr Netanyahu succeeded in forming a government by the skin of his teeth. The negotiations were tough, the natural partners wouldn’t join and the…

150508 8th May, 2015 Shabbat Shalom everyone! I hope this missive finds you well and that you are just a little bit warmer. Here in Israel the weather is absolutely stupendous! Not too hot, just right. 70 years ago the free world celebrated the Allied Victory over the evil Nazi regime in what is known as…

150501 1st May, 2015 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Gosh it has been quite a while since I wrote and so much has happened, both here and in the big wide world. I don’t know if you realised but Wendy Sherman led the nuclear negotiations with North Korea, negotiations so successful that they now have nuclear bombs…

150426 26th April, 2015 Today I am asking you to opens your hearts and your purses. A gentleman by the name of Shachar Zahavi began a small organisation with enormous hopes and intentions 10 years ago, to go out and change the world. IsraAid. IsraAid, along with the IDF, is sending teams to help in…

150422                                                                             22 April 2015 = 3rd of Iyyar, 5775 ג׳ בְּאִיָּר תשע״ה Today is Israel Remembrance Day. Today we…

150415 15th April, 2015 Yom ha Shoah, Israel. Tonight Holocaust Remembrance Day begins at dusk in Israel. The significance of this day is intense, a reminder of what was and what can be again. If we really look into what is happening in the world today we would hear forbidding echoes of a time not…

150409 9th April, 2015 Moadim le Simcha, Chag Sameach, Shabbat Shalom, hope your Easter was blessed. Lent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent and the Counting of the Omer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_of_the_Omer . For Christians it ended at Easter for Jews it began with Pesach (Passover) and ends with Shevuot, penitence, atonement,  the holding back on music and feasts, the recognition that giving up certain celebrations and…

150403 3rd of April 2015 Shabbat Shalom, Chag Pesach Sameach and a Blessed Easter to all. Israeli ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor -details the anti-Israel record of the United Nations, “Israel is the only nation that is singled out for criticism by virtue of a special program, known as Agenda Item 7. A result, according…