Alwayswriteagain: Great Lives, Savage Deeds

Alwayswriteagain: Great Lives, Savage Deeds: This is a sad day when I awoke to a grey, damp, freezing, morning – with news that rockets had been fired on Kiryat Shemona  from Lebanon an...

Alwayswriteagain: A Thousand Stars for Charity

Alwayswriteagain: A Thousand Stars for Charity: I’m unsure what the rest of the world was doing on Xmas Day night, but in our corner of Karmiel, Western Galilee  everything sparkled at the...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Star-Topped Christmas Mincemeat’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Star-Topped Christmas Mincemeat’: “What are little boys made of? Slugs and snails, and puppy dogs tails That's what little boys are made of! What are little girls made ...

Alwayswriteagain: WRITERS’ PERFORMANCE EVENING

Alwayswriteagain: WRITERS’ PERFORMANCE EVENING: A microphone stand is needed for a writers’ performance evening in Karmiel, Israel on Monday 06 January 2014. Any readers knowing where on...

Alwayswriteagain: ‘An Excuse for Squalid Triumphalism’

Alwayswriteagain: ‘An Excuse for Squalid Triumphalism’: There is a tipping point in religious extremism where the ultra pious of all faiths meet. They live monochrome lives in a monolithic world d...

Alwayswriteagain: Shine On Wayward Moon!

Alwayswriteagain: Shine On Wayward Moon!: Prize-winning historical novelist, Janice Weizman braved the first storms of the Israeli winter on Tuesday to travel from Rehovot near ...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘The Killing Game’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘The Killing Game’: Frazer: Hi – Lily? Lily: Yes, it’s me. Frazer: I can hear you but I can’t see you. Lily: My webcam’s not working properly, so when I use ...

Alwayswriteagain: Missing Karmiel Soldier Returns Home

Alwayswriteagain: Missing Karmiel Soldier Returns Home: Daniel Kadosh , the 18-year-old soldier from Karmiel who went missing on Saturday evening has returned home safe and sound, according to the...

Alwayswriteagain: RE: MISSING ISRAELI SOLDIER - DANIELKADOSH

Alwayswriteagain: RE: MISSING ISRAELI SOLDIER - DANIELKADOSH: This is a reposting in approximately accurate English from a Hebrew bulletin about an I.D.F. man who's gone missing in Karmiel, Lower ...

Alwayswriteagain: Have Yourself a Merry ‘Pseudo-Christmas’!

Alwayswriteagain: Have Yourself a Merry ‘Pseudo-Christmas’!:   In my treasure box of best-loved ironies there’s one about the British Fascist Oswald Mosley having Handel ’s Judas Maccabeus Orato...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Saul Dislocates His Shoulder!’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Saul Dislocates His Shoulder!’: Gibeah Mental Health Centre Psych Consult – Schizophrenia Evaluation and Management (E/M) Patient SHAUL MATRITE-BENJAMIN IDENTIFYING D...

Alwayswriteagain: Gleanings

Alwayswriteagain: Gleanings: “And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of...

Alwayswriteagain: The History of the Jews Unrolled

Alwayswriteagain: The History of the Jews Unrolled: The Internet is a wonderful thing, allowing me to view here in Israel BBC TV’s five-part series The Story of the Jews presented by Simon S...

Alwayswriteagain: A Nice Jewish Girl Behaving Badly!

Alwayswriteagain: A Nice Jewish Girl Behaving Badly!: To be a woman in the ninth century Middle East was to be faceless, shapeless, voiceless  – and powerless. But while some things do...

Alwayswriteagain: Their Knickers Are In A twist About Israel!

Alwayswriteagain: Their Knickers Are In A twist About Israel!: After some weeks away from this site, it’s a pity that I must return  in high defence mode: So:  Beware the Ides of March. Look out for ...

Alwayswriteagain: Why Most Jews Still Stand Alone

Alwayswriteagain: Why Most Jews Still Stand Alone: It was back to regular business in Israel after an uncommonly early month of Jewish New Year festivities. The main story for news outlets du...

Alwayswriteagain: Cutting-Edge Culture in Ancient Acco

Alwayswriteagain: Cutting-Edge Culture in Ancient Acco: I was most surprised to read a recent   Jerusalem Post piece decrying an alleged dearth of ‘cultural endeavour’ in Israel. Perhaps as I liv...

Alwayswriteagain: Cutting-Edge Culture in Ancient Acco

Alwayswriteagain: Cutting-Edge Culture in Ancient Acco: I was most surprised to read a recent   Jerusalem Post piece decrying an alleged dearth of ‘cultural endeavour’ in Israel. Perhaps as I liv...

Alwayswriteagain: Great Charter - Huge Hatred - Nothing Changed

Alwayswriteagain: Great Charter - Huge Hatred - Nothing Changed: Magna Carta, described as “the greatest constitutional document of all times” and considered the cornerstone of the British constitution, de...

Alwayswriteagain: How He Raised the Roof for Succot!

Alwayswriteagain: How He Raised the Roof for Succot!: My husband’s Facebook friends have been lining up to congratulate him on his splendid ’balcony’ succah . This is the temporary ‘dwelling’ i...

Alwayswriteagain: Yom Kippur – Forty Years On

Alwayswriteagain: Yom Kippur – Forty Years On: I was a 19-year-old kid when the Yom Kippur War broke out. In North Manchester, U.K. you’d have thought all hell had been let loose. It ...

Alwayswriteagain: Standing On King Saul’s Shoulder

Alwayswriteagain: Standing On King Saul’s Shoulder: Last week we visited Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee and I am still marvelling at the hair-pinned road  running rings round its precipitous...

Alwayswriteagain: God Interviews His Linkman

Alwayswriteagain: God Interviews His Linkman: “Hello, good evening and ….” “Welcome, Sir David . Here,  I do the interviews. So while you peer through the keyhole of My home, I’ll scr...

Alwayswriteagain: Shana Tova IRAC

Alwayswriteagain: Shana Tova IRAC: Mazel tov to Anat Hoffman on being voted Israel’s Person of the Year. I don't agree with everything that she and IRAC do but we must a...

Alwayswriteagain: Commemorated Thus Beautifully

Alwayswriteagain: Commemorated Thus Beautifully: "Lines written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin" O commemorate me where there is water canal water...

כתיבה וחתימה טובה

 

The first day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, falls next week, Thursday 05 September 2013. May everyone who is celebrating have a great 5774.

Be well sealed!

Natalie Wood and Brian Fink

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Alwayswriteagain: Reading the Anti-Jewish Runes

Alwayswriteagain: Reading the Anti-Jewish Runes: Call me an old softie, but I can never think of Winston Churchill without becoming emotional. A visit to his war rooms at the Imperial War ...

Alwayswriteagain: Anti-Jewish Wolves In Ripped-Off Clothing

Alwayswriteagain: Anti-Jewish Wolves In Ripped-Off Clothing: I’d been having fun finding pictures to illustrate my latest flash story, when I found these two items among Google images under the key wor...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Crying Wolf’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Crying Wolf’:   Wolf had arrived late and barely gestured in greeting.   “M’friends call me ‘Wolfie’. Who are you?”, he barked at the woman on the oth...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Vine Leaves’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Vine Leaves’: “Friends,” said Anna rising to toast her guests, “o n nights like this, Shakespearian lovers mused on ancient Troy, sighing how the wind kis...

Alwayswriteagain: Israel’s Stumbling Block Before The Blind

Alwayswriteagain: Israel’s Stumbling Block Before The Blind: Our crowd is now of an age when body parts drop off at a rate of knots. Coping with illness can be especially difficult for older Karmieli...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘In Gypsy Davy’s Locker’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘In Gypsy Davy’s Locker’: Rachel Leah, named for the lovely sister and the other who was weary and weak-eyed, sped on a plane to Spain to meet her feckless father. “...

Alwayswriteagain: Some Giraffe – Some Neck!

Alwayswriteagain: Some Giraffe – Some Neck!:   When the death of British travel journalist, Alan Whicker was announced on  Friday last week, I reflected not only upon his love of ecc...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Home Alone’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Home Alone’: Great Aunt Julia slumped in her seat, her ramrod-straight back sagging beneath the weight of the news she must convey. Then, as she began ...

Alwayswriteagain: An Eye for Jewish Study – In Israel

Alwayswriteagain: An Eye for Jewish Study – In Israel: The idea of importing  study to Israel may seem like wedging a truism between a commonplace and a cliché. You can almost hear the bookcase g...

Alwayswriteagain: Glastonbury – And All That Israeli Jazz!

Alwayswriteagain: Glastonbury – And All That Israeli Jazz!: If you haven’t made it to this year’s Glastonbury Music Festival in Somerset, England perhaps you’d care to change your plans and join Ameri...

Alwayswriteagain: A Royal Anointing: Not Power But Destiny

Alwayswriteagain: A Royal Anointing: Not Power But Destiny: When Queen Elizabeth II   concluded her Diamond Jubilee celebrations with a coronation anniversary service, it was  instructive to note th...

Alwayswriteagain: Without Peres Would Israel’s Vision Perish?

Alwayswriteagain: Without Peres Would Israel’s Vision Perish?: Mention the name ‘ Shimon Peres ’ almost anywhere in Israel and those listening smile broadly. What’s more, scores of the world’s most...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Little Miss Know-All’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Little Miss Know-All’: Bebe scrambled her way up to the highest stone in the rock garden and spread her arms wide. “Daddy!” she yelled, “Now it’s my birthday and ...

Alwayswriteagain: Style ‘N’ Safety For Israel’s Classic Cars

Alwayswriteagain: Style ‘N’ Safety For Israel’s Classic Cars: Scores of classic car and motorcycle enthusiasts poured on to the streets of Karmiel this weekend for the Israeli city’s third annual heri...

Alwayswriteagain: The Railway: Karmiel City’s 2020 Vision

Alwayswriteagain: The Railway: Karmiel City’s 2020 Vision: “My relationship with trains is so close now that every time my train meets one going the other way I expect to see myself on it, wavin...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘My Enemy Tastes Better Eaten Hot’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘My Enemy Tastes Better Eaten Hot’: * Extracts from an exclusive interview  given to  internationalnewsandviews.com, your 24/7 online news and film service. “Khaled al-Hamad l...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Open Mike!’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Open Mike!’: Amy Reynolds pushed her way, smiling,  through the mass of tables shaking hands and air-kissing as she went. Then she mounted the podium, wa...

Alwayswriteagain: Our Land – And Ours

Alwayswriteagain: Our Land – And Ours: To live in Israel is barely to begin to understand it. You’ve just learned to nail jelly to the wall, step back to admire your handiwork, ...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Oy Gestalt: The Circumference Of A Bomb Shelter’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Oy Gestalt: The Circumference Of A Bomb Shelter’: “… in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard ...” (‘ The Diameter Of The Bomb’, Yehuda Amichai) Sp...

Alwayswriteagain: The Children Who Die Too Soon

Alwayswriteagain: The Children Who Die Too Soon: Elizabeth Gaskell’s poem for her stillborn daughter, 1836 On Visiting the Grave of My Stillborn Little Girl I made a vow within m...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Between Two Stones And A Hard Place’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Between Two Stones And A Hard Place’: Lol Brenner stopped her hands trembling by hugging her coffee mug. “You bastard, Harv. When you prodded me awake we were at Mike’s Place in...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Teeth Like Pearls’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Teeth Like Pearls’: The day Lady Thatcher died was the day Hayley Morton had her extractions. “I’ve come to seize your teeth, not to bury them,” beamed Profess...

Alwayswriteagain: Why Are We Reading ‘Back to the Future’ Tributes F...

Alwayswriteagain: Why Are We Reading ‘Back to the Future’ Tributes F...: On a day when the death of Margaret Thatcher has eclipsed all other news, I write of an increasing and markedly unhealthy trend for adulato...

Alwayswriteagain: Why All’s Not Plain Sailing In Haifa

Alwayswriteagain: Why All’s Not Plain Sailing In Haifa: Our end-of-Passover outing to the National Maritime Museum in Haifa became a dreary disappointment today when the main door was shut in our ...

Alwayswriteagain: Hot Stuff For A New Slant On Passover

Alwayswriteagain: Hot Stuff For A New Slant On Passover: With thanks to Adam Levick of CIF Watch for posting and sharing this fun-filled clip  with its deliciously off-beat look at the story of Pa...

Alwayswriteagain: Ancient Food Forges Arab-Jewish Friendships

Alwayswriteagain: Ancient Food Forges Arab-Jewish Friendships: Thanks to an Israeli TV chef based in London and an American immigrant in the Galilee an ancient food has become a modern fad - and a great ...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Grating Carrots’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Grating Carrots’: “Nancy!”, called Mum. “Come here, please. I need you in the kitchen”. “Nancy,” said Mum, as she appeared, dishevelled,  flushed and resentf...

Alwayswriteagain: Whining About Wine

Alwayswriteagain: Whining About Wine: When, during my first year living in Israel, I dared to criticise the food and service at a popular restaurant in Karmiel, my new friends ro...

Alwayswriteagain: The Curious Incident of Lord Ahmed Condemning Anti...

Alwayswriteagain: The Curious Incident of Lord Ahmed Condemning Anti...: There are several puzzling aspects to the story of twice-disgraced Muslim Labour Peer,  Nazir Lord Ahmed which are yet to be addressed. ...

Alwayswriteagain: New Palestinian Bus Lines ‘NOT Racist’ – Official

Alwayswriteagain: New Palestinian Bus Lines ‘NOT Racist’ – Official: With important international news outlets to support them, no wonder the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions lobby thinks it is winning the ant...

Alwayswriteagain: Jews Should Ignore Holocaust Memorial Day

Alwayswriteagain: Jews Should Ignore Holocaust Memorial Day: If Holocaust Memorial Day is good for anything, it’s to demonstrate how hard it  is simply being Jewish. The twenty-four hours of global com...

Alwayswriteagain: How To Swing At Purim – Just Like That!

Alwayswriteagain: How To Swing At Purim – Just Like That!: There must be as many variations of Purim festivities as there are places worldwide where Jews enjoy them.  But some things are universal: w...

Alwayswriteagain: The Mystery Of ‘Is And Seems’

Alwayswriteagain: The Mystery Of ‘Is And Seems’: As the Jewish world prepares for Purim –  a day of  unbridled carnival hijinks – Israeli audiences have revelled in a rollicking production...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘All The Black Years’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘All The Black Years’: Last night  we kindled a memorial light and recited a prayer. Then Aunt Leila drove us  into the Galilee hills to meet a woman who had spen...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Samson, Delilah – And A Slice Of Treacle Tart’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Samson, Delilah – And A Slice Of Treacle Tart’: The phone barely beeped  before it was answered. “Hello. Phil E Stein. Turf Accountants. How  …” “Phil, you don’t have to be posh with me,...

Alwayswriteagain: We’re Thrilled That ‘It’s A Girl’!

Alwayswriteagain: We’re Thrilled That ‘It’s A Girl’!: I’m re-posting the link to the clip below although it’s already appeared on Facebook and elsewhere. I’m making an exception because of its...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Strangled By Shame’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Strangled By Shame’: A frightening ride through the streets of New Delhi had so exhausted Rafi David that he barely spoke for hours. Then he grimaced. “I must a...

Alwayswriteagain: ‘From There To Here’ – In A Moment!

Alwayswriteagain: ‘From There To Here’ – In A Moment!: ‘From there to here’: A neat phrase often used by émigrés to encapsulate the untidy, even distressing business of moving home from o...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘The Company Of Friends’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘The Company Of Friends’: Eileen shuffled uncomfortably in her chair. Time was passing. She had to speak or miss the moment. “There’s no use waiting any longer. Ma...