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VE Day, Virus, Virtual Meetings and Verdicts

8th May 2020   Shabbat Shalom dear friends, I hope you are well.   Today’s date holds a place of paramount importance in the history of the world; 75 years ago yesterday the German war machine surrendered and the 8th of May was declared as Victory in Europe Day. The last German military communications decoded…

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Yom Shoah 2020

20th April, 2020   Tonight, Holocaust Remembrance Day begins in Israel and the Jewish Communities, the date chosen to commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Incredibly today I learned that the Warsaw Ghetto had a full medical school and produced fine doctors, yet another example which refutes the theory that the Jews just went like sheep…

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Conspiracy, Conniving, Crowns and Clapping

20th March 2020   Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope you are abiding by the rules or as I call it “Activity in the Shadow of the Crown”   Tell me something, how many Presidents decide to calm all the worried children in his country by reading them children’s stories? Ours does. Our amazing, wonderful…

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Daniel

2nd January 2020   Shabbat Shalom dear friends   This week I am not going to talk about politics, anti-semitism or diplomacy. This week I am going to write to you about an exceptional human being; someone who brought light into every life he touched and he touched many.   Two weeks ago my amazing…

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