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…

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…