180920   The Fasting is over now for the Feast!   Yom Kippur is over for another year. I don’t know what happens in your country but for most secular Jews in Israel, the fast is essential but the prayers are not. In fact many just come to the vicinity of the synagogue to hear…

Shabbat and Yom ha Kippurim     Good Shabbes! Shabbat Shalom to each and every one of you; wherever you may be, whatever your form of prayer, whether you believe or not. I wish you a wonderful day of rest.   The Torah reading this Shabbat, the Shabbat between Rosh Hashana (Head of the Year…

Shabbat 27th Elul, 5778 Shabbat Shalom, Shana Tova, Happy Al-Hijra, a sweet and kind new year. This weeks Torah reading deals with the choices we make in life, as put to the Children of Israel by Moses from the word of Hashem, of G-d. It is made very clear that one’s standing in life is irrelevant,…

180831 31st August 2018 Shabbat Shalom! How are you? Yes I am back from my various travels and do not intend leaving Israel for 6 months at least!!! Our last trip was to the Greek Island of Kos, 6 adults and 6 children ranging from 6 months to 12 years and we found the locals incredibly…

180817 17th August, 2018 Good Shabbes, Shabbat Shalom, we wish you a great weekend wherever you are. Shabbat, a day of rest and contemplation which recharges ones batteries and gives us time with family, probably the greatest gift given by Judaism to the world. Sadly the importance of rest, contemplation and family have been eroded by…

180810 10th August 2018 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I’m back with a million sweet memories from this special trip to London, but more of that later. First to business. I want you to imagine yourself in your home, on a kibbutz, concerned with your family, your friends and your crops, living the rural life and without…

180727 27th of July, 2017 – Tu b’Av Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Today I wish you a day of love, in the Jewish tradition of Tu b’Av – the fifteenth day of the month of Av when the girls of the villages would dress in white, go out into the fields and wait for the love…

180722 Sunday the 22nd July Yes I know it isn’t Shabbat but Dubi Gordon quite rightly pointed out that one of our biggest problems right now is not coming from our Southern neighbours, nor our Eastern or Northern neighbours, but rather from within. It happened in the Church when Protestantism broke away from the Catholic Church because…

180720 20th July 2018 Shalom, Salaam, hello and Shabbat Shalom to everyone. So much has happened this week in our world. The reactions to the Trump-Putin summit have been so filled with hate that it terrifies me; the Trump visit to Britain was portrayed as if the entire island was anti Trump for one reason only…

180713 13th July 2018 – Friday 13th! Good morning! G’day! Bonjour! Buenos Dias! Guten morgen! Salaam Aleikem! שלום עליכם. Bora da. Shabbat Shalom. I wanted to speak to you in your own language and since, unlike Zvi, I am not a polyglot, that’s as far as I go!!! This has been a fascinating week on the international…