160811 1th August 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Did you miss me? We were touring the amazing country of Portugal and I just didn’t manage to gather my thoughts last week. So much has happened in the interim but I want to start with the past. On Sunday we honour the most fatalistic date in…

160728 28th July, 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope you are well and not too deeply into despair every time you switch on the news or hear the newspaper drop through your letter box. We live in a time of horrific killings and the utter ineptitude of our leaders. We live in a time whereby…

160722 22nd July 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Much has happened since we last spoke, some good, some bad and some surprising! Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is a very wily political dictator. He had a problem however, he was uncertain of his military, both leaders and soldiers, and even though Turkey is not really the Middle…

160715 15th July 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. My profound condolences go out to the people of France. Yesterday was Bastille Day, the National Day of France, the celebration of freedom and independence. Throughout the country young and old attended parties and where better to spend the evening than along the famous Promenade des Anglais in…

160906 9th of June 2016, New York City Before anyone gets upset, we are here in New York for a very limited period (made shorter by Deltas overnight delays and Lufthansa breaking our suitcase) and my grandchildren come before anyone else. I wanted to see lots of you but life ran away with us for…

160708 8th of July 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Today is a very special day. Indeed it is one of three most special days of my life. Today, 44 years ago Gideon Saul, my sunshine, came into the world. His determination to make this world a better place, to fight for justice, has made him into…

160701 The first of July 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Today is the last day of school in Israel as children break up for the long summer holidays. It should have been Hallel Yaffa Ariels last day of school but instead, yesterday was the last day of her life. A beautiful 13 year old child, the joy of…

160623 23rd June 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends! Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem. It seems so long since we spoke, last week I just couldn’t gather my thoughts after a phenomenal trip to the USA and awful jet lag! More about our sojourn in the Land of the Free later, but first, as always, we need to…

160528 28th May, 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Here in Edmonton, Canada it is only eleven o’clock on a Friday morning, so Shabbat is still a good few hours away, and many adventures are behind us, with even more ahead of us! Last week was uneventful for both of us since we discovered our incredible…

160520 20th May 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your wonderful wishes and concern for Talia and Ayala. They are doing remarkably well as their bruises begin to fade and their sleep is less disturbed. Indeed their school is gathering all 1,000 girls for a huge party of thanks today…