9th April, 2023 18th Nissan, 5783 Ramadan 18, 1444 Moadim le Simcha, Chag Pesach Sameach, a Blessed Easter, Ramadan Kareem I didn’t write on Friday, before Shabbat, because for some of you, outside Israel, it was still the holy first days of Passover. I admit I do not fully understand why Israel celebrates one day…

29th March, 2023 Shabbat Shalom, almost Pesach Sameach, Ramadan Kareem and a Happy Easter This is what I wrote on Monday morning “Last night the rational people of Israel, the centre right and left, stopped hoping everything will be alright and became lions that roared their discontent! Within five minutes of the announcement that Netanyahu…

23rd March 2023 1st of Nissan 5783 Shabbat Shalom, Chodesh Tov (a good month) Today is the first day of the Hebrew month of Nissan, actually the real Hebrew new year, the month from which the year is counted. What is special about this month? As is indicated in its name, it is the month…

17th March, 2023 Shabbat Shalom! Shabbat Shalom from wonderful, democratic Israel. The demonstrations here in Israel are not the storming of the Bastille, although it is said that we have our own version of Marie Antoinette; it is nothing to do with Guy Fawkes and the 5th of November plot nor is it the rather…

3rd March, 2023 Shabbat shalom dear friends. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness,…

24th February, 2023 3rd day of the Hebrew month of Adar in the year 5783 Shabbat shalom and chodesh Tov, which means that I wish you a good month of Adar. Traditionally, the month of Adar is a month of joy, of happy occasions so I hope that we can leave all the natural and…

17th February 2023 Shabbat Shalom! How are you! Since I promised you to always tell the truth I will begin with the situation here in Israel, but on condition that it is taken in context with what is happening in the rest of the world, with the natural and man made disasters happening at this…

10th February, 2023 Good morning, Shabbat Shalom! I hope this missive finds you well. Today, this week, this contentious world came together to help a country that has suffered a horrific tragedy. Turkey is no stranger to the horrors of earthquakes but the sheer proportion of this quake and its consequences has left the country…

3rd February 2023 12th Shvat, 5783 Good morning, Good Shabbes, Shabbat Shalom! The wonderful healing rains came down this week, preparing the earth for Tu b’Shvat, the new year for trees – Jewish Ecology! The custom of planting trees and eating fruit began in the 16th century in the town of Sefat by the followers…

29th January 2021 Just a word on the aftermath In 2018, on a peaceful Shabbat morning, a lone gunman stormed into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood and stole the lives of 11 souls in prayer. The world, rightly, was horrified and the media expressed its dismay and disgust, so why…