160517 17th May, 2016 Yesterday was a tough day! Talia and Ayalas school bus was in an accident, it spun several times and turned over completely after the driver veered to avoid another accident right in front of them. An idiot driver thought she could turn into a side road across the traffic, travelling fast. 16…

11th May, 2016 יום הזכרון 5776 Remembrance Day for soldiers who died fighting so we could be free and for those who fell to terror. Only two nights ago we celebrated a truly special wedding. The groom, my nephew Ofer,  stood under the chuppa with his father Steve and his brothers Sagi and Yair watching with…

160504 4th May, 2016 Dear Friends, It isn’t Shabbat, Pesach has been and gone and it is almost Holocaust Remembrance Day here in Israel. Those who can tell their story and those who heard their stories are slowly leaving this earth and we must, we have to honour their memory and the memory of those who perished. How…

160422 Fri, 22 April 2016 = 14th of Nisan, 5776, י״ד בְּנִיסָן תשע״ו Erev Pesach Gosh, I really didn’t think I would manage to write today, with 27 people coming to us for Seder night, but all is cooked and prepared, the tables are laid and I couldn’t leave you in the air with such an important week.…

160415 15th April, 2016 Shabbat Shalom to you, to yours and to all those for whom you care. What a week! As you probably noticed I have done my very best to stay out of American politics, after all I get cross when our politics are misunderstood and those outside Israel think they understand when they…

160408 8th April 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. How are you this week? I hope  you are feeling well. I know that your weather is probably very different to ours at the moment, especially if you live in North America. An Israeli girlfriend went to visit her son this week and found herself freezing in minus…

160401 April 1st, 2016 Shabbat Shalom and no, I’m not going to do you an April Fool’s letter, we have enough fools in this world already!!! I decided that today I would write about good and hopeful items. I don’t know about you but I have had enough of gloom and doom to last. I…

160324 24th March 2016 It seems banal to say Happy Purim and Shabbat Shalom when we, the entire world is seeing Purim without Mordechai and this Shabbat has no Shalom, excepting that which we bring to our holy day from within. The connection between Purim, Haman, Homeini, domination, Turkey, Israel and Belgium is infinite but so…

160818 18th March, 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Shabbat Shalom from beautiful Jerusalem. Meir Dagan passed away this week. May his soul rest in peace for he has definitely earned his place in heaven. As a young man he was given a photograph of his grandfather, Zvi. The photograph was of his grandfather being beaten and…

11th March, 2016 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I am happy to report that I am almost over my surgery which was for a hernia repair repair. No that isn’t a typo, I meant a repair of a repair!! Why don’t the surgeons tell you that about 50% of laparoscopic hernia repairs need redoing? Anyway, things are…