170721 21st July, 2017 Shabbat Shalom! I hope this missive finds you well, or at least determined to be well. Rolf Hochhuth wrote a play called “The Visit” or the “Visit of the Old Lady“. The story goes thus. A very wealthy old lady comes to visit the town of her childhood and makes an offer…

170714 14th July 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. A week of incredible jubilation with the Maccabiah and of confusion and accusations over Telephones and Submarines. Sadly I must start with the tragic news that three Arab terrorists came in through the Lion’s Gate searching for policemen to kill. They shot three and succeeded. There are no…

170707 7th July, 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends 60 years ago I was a bridesmaid in a wonderfully frilly salmon pink dress. For whom? For my big sister Eddie who was marrying her handsome soulmate Raymond. Eddie and Ray were so lucky because they both had their parents at their wedding and our maternal grandparents. The…

170630 30th June 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I really don’t know where to start this week, the subjects are diverse and the repercussions enormous, but nothing is without solutions, we just have to find them. The secret with problem solving is not in blaming or finding a culprit but rather in patient debate and scientific…

170623 23rd June 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope this missive finds you well and if you do not feel good today then tomorrow will be better. I decided to stay away from politics wherever possible this week, just to tell you about our week and what we did. I must, however tell you about…

170616 16th June 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. David Grossman is Israeli. He has often been described as the conscience of Israel through his writing and his words. David Grossman is on the left of the political map but he loves Israel and sadly gave the ultimate sacrifice of his son’s life to the war against…

170609 9th June 2017 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope you managed to keep up with the constant news this week! Perhaps I should do a run down and then we can talk about other things. Let’s begin with the British elections of yesterday. If one looks at the map of the British Isles one could well…

170602 2nd June 2017 Shabbat Shalom! I hope you are well and not too disturbed by all the various news reports. If you are surprised by the about turn on moving the Embassy to Jerusalem then you have a very short memory! At least this time it is deferred by 6 months rather than vetoed. If you remember…

170526 26th May, 2017 Shabbat Shalom! How are you? I hope this week has been a little calmer than ours, but then this is Israel where we live life at a rate of knots and Jerusalem where every day is interesting! On Tuesday we watched the 5 helicopters circle and circle above us, occasionally shooting off…

170523 23rd May, 2017 What a tragedy. What a ghastly tragedy. Children spending a dream night at a concert starring their favourite pop star when an insanely radical Islamist, sent by ISIS, blew himself up taking 22 young lives, the youngest of whom was just 8 years old. He was not poor, he was not disenfranchised,…