22nd of August 2025 28th of the Hebrew month of Av in the year 5785 669 days since Israel responded to the attack of October 7th Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Almost time to wish you a good month as we near the Hebrew month of Elul The month of Elul, the last month of the…

15th of August 2025 21st day of the Hebrew month of Av in the year 5785 678th of October Shabbat Shalom to one and all “Give us back our 50 hostages. Some are alive and some are only alive in our souls. Let the innocent people who are in Gaza have a chance. We are…

8th August 2025 671st of October 2023 15th of the month of Av 5785 “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.” Jonathan Swift Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I was looking for…

1st of August 2025 7th of the month of Av, 5785 665th of October Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Gosh you have no idea how important you are to me. By writing to you I feel a closeness and it forces me to think pragmatically in a world that has become insane. Tomorrow night we enter…

25th July 2025 The 658th of October Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Today is also the Feast of St. James for the Catholic and Anglican Churches and Jews are in the second week of the three weeks of penitence which lead up to Tisha b’Av, the commemoration of the destruction of both Temples. During the 3…

Friday the 18th of July, 2025 650 days since the 7th of October massacre 650 days of brutal captivity 4,000 days since Hadar Golding was killed and his body snatched to Gaza Shabbat Shalom dear friends far and near So much has happened this week that I didn’t know where to start, how to deny…

11th July 2025 “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Shabbat Shalom dear friends. A strange Shabbat, rather like all the Shabbatot for the last 643 days. We are sad, even as we dance;…

4th of July, 2025 Shabbat Shalom! A happy Fourth of July I hope this missive finds you well. Finally, yesterday, Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sarah, went to visit Kibbutz Nir Oz. Kibbutz Nir Oz, an agricultural community right on the border with Gaza, suffered the worst of all the diabolical attacks by Hamas…

27th June 2025 Shabbat Shalom. “In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.”Sir Winston S. Churchill So another war is over, or so it seems. The traffic jams are back, parties abound, the restaurants are full, and Jerusalemites were asked to bake cake for Shabbat, for those who lost their homes.…

22nd June 2025 The day the lion roared after a year and a half since October 7th Today may not be a comfortable day here in Israel but we are ready for whatever the vile, despotic, perpetrator of the most heinous crimes in recent times has in store for us. The Iranian regime has been…