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…

Friday the 20th of June, 2025 24th day of the month of Sivan 5785 622 days since the 7th of October and we still have hostages barely alive in Gaza Shabbat Shalom, As the TV hosts say “By popular request” I am writing again, but this will be a short one because I am afraid…

​20th June 2025 622 days of captivity for at least 20 hostages who are still alive Shabbat Shalom although it’s only Thursday Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged. Mark Twain 00:30 Here we are back in the safe room, filling our time, waiting to hear if we can go back…

15th June 2025 It’s now 02:30 and the warning message came on to our phones, waking us out of a deep sleep. This is the first message accompanied by a strange ticking sound. This message gives us time to wake, go to the loo, get a blanket, whatever you need, or if you are in…

13th June 2025 Shabbat Shalom, or is that the right expression under the current circumstances. Let me begin at the beginning It is now 03:22 and Zvi and I are sitting in the Mamad, the safe room, watching the news, as Israel attacks the Iranian nuclear facilities. I realised that the telephone warning was different…

6th June 2025 86 weeks 6 days since the 7th of October 2023 Shabbat Shalom dear friends After reading the story of Ruth over Shevuot (Pentecost) my renowned lateral thinking took me in many directions, but they all met up with one word, FAMILY. Ruth was married to Mahlon, one of the sons of Elimelech…

30th May 2025 602 days since October 7th Shabbat Shalom and almost Shevuot, Pentecost and Eid Al Adha I find it so hard to believe that this war, which began after a horrific attack, a rampage of killing, slughter, rape and kidnapping, has lasted longer than Israel’s war of Independence. 602 days in which the…

23rd May 2025 Shabbat shalom to one and all It happened again. Two young people were shot and killed for one reason only, because they were Jews. Don’t be fooled by the whole “Free Palestine” call of the killer, this entire diabolical situation is anti-Semitism raising its ugly head yet again in the guise of…

16th May 2025 Lag b’Omer 5785 Shabbat Shalom! Today is the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer, the days between Passover and Pentecost (Pesach and Shevuot) and a day of bonfires, barbecues and a halt in the restrictions of the Omer, similar to the restrictions of Lent. My cousin Debbie sent me this…