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…

9th May 2025 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Yesterday was a very important day, a new Pope was elected after just 2 days of conclave. A new Pope, an American who grew up in Chicago and spent much of his adult life in Peru, Pope Leo XIV, has the ability and opportunity to influence the world…

1st of May, 2025 Shabbat Shalom As the sun sets on the horizon, Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, is drawing to a close. 77 years and we have built, planted, grown, brought in, helped, fed, initiated, innovated, tended and been a light unto nations despite still fighting our war of independence; we really are an…

24th of April, 2025 Yom HaShoah 565 days since the 7th of October 2023 Today Israel commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day. The eerie sound of the two minute siren as Israel came to a standstill. This year commemorating the 80th year since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenhau, a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland…

11th April, 2025 13th Nissan 5785 552nd of October Shabbat Shalom dear friends, Shabbat Shalom and a peaceful Pesach. “Justice doesn’t always arrive in sweeping gestures or loud declarations. Sometimes, it walks softly into a room and says, “This isn’t right”—and the world begins to shift. Our very special friend Dr Kim Taylor wrote these…

​4th April 2025 Shabbat Shalom, I wish you a peaceful Shabbat with only good surprises I made a promise yesterday!  I promised Rachel that I wouldn’t touch on politics today, just general news and happy events. It’s somewhat difficult but a promise is a promise. There are wonderful, exceptional things that happen here and in…

28th March, 2025 30th Shvat, 5785 1 year, 5 months and 20 days since October 7th Shabbat Shalom, Chodesh Tov (new month) the month of Nissan is almost behind us and Adar comes in tonight. A holy Eid-l-Fitr If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill; may my tongue cling to the…

19th March 2025 Today is a very important day in history. 80 years ago, on the 19th of March 1945, in the city of Jerusalem, a boy was born to the Rybak family, to Kalman and Alla Rybak. Their joy was all encompassing because they were both the sole survivors of the Holocaust, both families…