171229 29th December 2017 Shabbat Shalom everyone – especially if you live in Guatemala!! I hope your Christmas and Boxing Day celebrations went well and that your prayers for 2018 will come true. Guatemala, Central America, about 16.5 million citizens and courage above anybody in Europe! Actually courage above any other country you wish to choose!!Garcia…

171222 22nd December, 2017 Shabbat Shalom and  Blessed Yuletide greetings The United Nations, after many years of proving its bias and uselessness, has put the final nail in the coffin of its relevance. I will not write at length about their decision, or of an American President that was willing to go out on a limb…

171215 15th of December 2017 Shabbat Shalom! Chag Sameach…… In Israel we tend to say “Festival of Lights” rather than just Happy Chanuka because our story represents the shining of light upon us all as well as the miracle of the 8 days of oil and the first time Jews decided to truly defend themselves. Jerusalem…

170812 8th December 2017 Shabbat Shalom everyone! After three days of rain and one clear statement by an American President Jerusalem is looking beautiful. If one truly analyses President Trumps statement/declaration nothing has changed except the paradigm. From the vote in Washington in 1995 the question of Jerusalem has been carefully put on a back burner,…

171201 The first of December 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I have to start with the ridiculous storm in a teacup after Israeli MinisterTsippi Hotovely said that American parents cannot understand what it means to have a child in the IDF. She’s right!!! I have two step-sons, Zvi’s boys, who served in the IDF in dangerous…

171123 23rd November 2017 Shabbat Shalom! How are you? I hope you are well and not too depressed by the crazy world we live in and the medias obsession with our leaders. Surprisingly this hasn’t been a busy week. It makes a pleasant change and gave me time to cook and contemplate – my freezer was…

171117 17th November 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Why is it that as soon as I get used to writing 2017 it is almost 2018??? The most important news for Israel this week barely made the headlines, certainly not around the world! The Knesset and Congresshave made a joint declaration urging the US Administration to demand that…

171110 10th November, 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. What a strange world we live in! I never thought, not in a million years, that good could come out of the revelations of Harvey Weinstein’s diabolical predilections but it opened the floodgates for women who feared the publicity of admitting they had been raped. As children…

171102 2nd November 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. An eventful week indeed. A man who was given safe haven by the United States of America after suffering oppression in his home country of Uzbekistan, an undoubtedly cruel dictatorship and finds work, as an Uber driver, and a new life. This is surely a story with a…

171027 27th October 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Gosh, 3 weeks have passed since my last letter. I have reasons not excuses but I hope you understand anyway! The first week was still Succot (Tabernacles) for you, even though it wasn’t in Israel I have a policy never to offend anyone religiously (or otherwise I hope!);…