Barack Obama admitted at a conference recently that he was bullied as a child. Addressing a bullying-prevention conference at the White House, the US President said that he was picked on as a child mostly because of his big ears and unorthodox name. “I didn’t emerge unscathed. But because it’s something that happens a lot,[…]
Anyone with a modicum of emotion could not help but be moved to tears by the devastating news of the massacre of the Fogel family in Itamar, Israel. The perpetrators of this atrocity are the lowest form of humanity – cowards in the extreme. To brutally murder a toddler and a newborn baby makes one[…]
I don’t typically tend to pass on those random emails one gets – especially those that promise you good luck if you forward it to ten other people, or bad luck if you break the chain. But there is one I received recently a near family member that really tickled my fancy. I don’t know[…]
Do you ever consider the small, uncanny coincidences in your life and realise that G-d really is on your side? Sometimes its simply a matter looking around you and being grateful for small mercies. As with many parents, theres always one part of a family holiday that I dread. The journey. It could be a[…]
It’s open season on Jews again. In just two most recent breaking news items, high ranking officials in different parts of the world were reported to have issued disturbing Anti Semitic tirades. A lawmaker in Chile, Senator Eugenio Tuma, publically condemned Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, who is Jewish, as an activist and militant for the[…]
My poor kids! Just as they’re enjoying a tranquil walk home synagogue on Friday night on the snow deserted streets of Mill Hill, some mindless thug has to hurl some pathetic racial abuse his car window. I always notice my kids tense up, even if only momentarily and I ask myself, “Why do they have[…]
It was one of those rare weeks I was inundated with bereavements; four to be precise. My heart goes out to all the mourners. But if there is one thing I find all the funerals shared in common it is the yentes and the yachnes who find funerals the ideal catch up time with friends[…]
One of the most popular catchphrases in Israel issavlanut which means “patience.” Anyone who’s ever experienced sitting in a traffic jam in the centre of Jerusalem, or walked through a shuk(market) on a Friday afternoon will understand why this one word tends to drip off everyone’s tongue. The Bible is replete with references extolling the[…]