6th December 2019   Shabbat Shalom! I hope this missive finds you sane and balanced as election fever takes over so many of our countries, a process to drive us crazy at the best of times and of late to test our brains to the limit. As always George Bernard Shaw puts things into perspective…

22nd November 2019   Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I wish I could tell you that this has been an easy week but I would be lying and I never lie to you. Yesterday was a very sad day for Israel. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblitt announced to the nation that after exhaustive investigations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

There is much discussion of the traumatised children of the South of Israel and I remember asking my big sister Eddie about her memories of the heavy bombings of Cardiff during WW2 and asked if she was traumatised. It made me realise that the innate ability to improvise and adapt to all situations of the…

Dear friends, I wish you a good week, Shevua Tov.   Tolerance is the only way forward. Before you jump down my throat, I’m not advocating tolerating evil, but rather being tolerant toward the thoughts and beliefs of others – to accept the idea that just because people think differently doesn’t mean they are wrong.…

31st October, 2019   Happy Halloween, Shabbat Shalom – strange that the two wishes stand so well beside each other! The meaning of Halloween or All Hallows Eve, is pretty much lost today but Shabbat, yes Shabbat is still going strong.   All our guests have gone, the sheets washed and the beds remade for…

25th October 2019   Shabbat Shalom everyone, I hope you are well.   I assume you have all read or heard the news that seems to have centred around the Kurds this week, despite the fact that the cruel civil war in Syria is 8 years old and half a million have died, or more…

191017   17th October 2019   Shabbat Shalom, Moadim leSimcha, Happy Feast of Tabernacles!   I am so confused with all the days of Festivals that I am not sure what day it is, but then it must be Thursday because I have an urge to write to you, and Friday when I send it!…

4th of October 2019   Good Shabbes, Shabbat Shalom, Shana Tova, Hatima Tova………. So many blessings but then one can never have too many!   I have to admit I wasn’t going to write to you today, I was going to wait until next week and Yom HaKippurim, but I have so much to tell…

27th September 2019 – 27th Ellul, 5779   Shabbat Shalom to one and all. I hope you are well and that the sun is shining on your day.   I’m going to write one short paragraph about Israeli politics and then we move on to that most meaningful of festivals, Rosh Hashana, the Head of…

190919 19th September 2019   Shabbat Shalom! I hope you are well.   So, that was a waste of a couple of billion shekels wasn’t it? We could have built a new hospital with the money. Another election driving Israelis into apathy or a party political frenzy.  Of course Zvi and I voted, we take…