14th March, 2025 Purim, 5785 Purim Sameach. Shabbat Shalom. Ramadan Kareem and a holy St Joseph’s Day Once, in a speech in the White House, Sir Winston Churchill said “Jaw jaw jaw not war war war” meaning that it is always better to talk than to fight. To find a diplomatic solution. However, when there…

7th of March 2025 7th of Adar, 5785 518th of October Shabbat Shalom, Ramadan Mubarak, have a peaceful weekend David ben Gurion said “If Jerusalem will fall there will not be a State.” Not Tel Aviv, nor Haifa, Jerusalem, the City we should not forget. I want to begin with a quote from our dear…

27th February 2025 29th Shevat 5785 509 days since the 7th of October Shabbat Shalom and Hodesh Tov, a new month, the month of Adar, and, if I dare, I wish all my Moslem friends a peaceful Ramadan which begins tomorrow Haim Nachman Bialik was the Israeli poet laureate, the national author. Bialik wrote these…

20th of February 2025 505 days of pain and disbelief Shabbat Shalom, if one can honestly call it that I have some Hebrew words for you, words that are on the lips of all Israelis today. עצב, כאב, השפלה, נפש שבורה Sadness, pain, humiliation, a broken soul Humanity has reached depths of depravity that no…

14th February, 2025 Tu b’Shvat 15 Shvat, 5785 the New Year for Trees Shabbat Shalom! Today is a very important day in the Jewish calendar, today ecology was born; today is Tu b’Shvat. The festival of Tu B’Shvat itself does not originate in the Torah. It is first mentioned in the Mishna (the first written…

​6th of February 2025 Shabbat shalom to one and all! “The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.” ― Ernest Hemingway I decided to jump right in rather than avoiding the elephant in the room, after all one of my favourite words…

30th January 2025 2nd of Shevat, 5785 482 days since 7th of October Shabbat Shalom I don’t know how to express my horror at the scenes yesterday morning as we watched what was meant to be a joyous moment as two more hostages were released. We stared open-mouthed in disbelief, then in a deep nauseating…

​24th January, 2025 Shabbat Shalom. I hope this missive finds you well In November 1942 Winston Churchill said “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” And so it is for us, for Israel, for the families of the…

17th January 2025 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Shabbat Shalom to you, your families and all your loved ones. 469 days and I cannot celebrate the impending release of the hostages without a deep sense of dread, dread for them, dread for their families and dread because I know what the expression “blood on their hands”…

10th January, 2025 10th of Tevet 5785 462 days of captivity for those hostages that may just be alive Shabbat Shalom dear friends. This week has been both wonderful and incredibly sad, a true representation of the honey and the sting. It’s strange, someone asked me why I left the green green grass of Wales…