Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Should Buyers Beware the Seven Pillars of Success?...

Alwayswriteagain: Should Buyers Beware the Seven Pillars of Success?...: “Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.” (Proverbs, Chapter 9) The Art of Success   suggests James Melouney , rests ...

Friday, 19 August 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Walking Back To Happiness …!

Alwayswriteagain: Walking Back To Happiness …!: I’ve just spent about a week reading a self-help manual for moderate depression ** . I was about two-thirds of the way through when I dropp...

Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Ageing Crocs In Denial!

Alwayswriteagain: Ageing Crocs In Denial!: This week, as we await the release of the film about US historian Deborah E. Lipstadt 's courtroom battle with Holocaust denier, David I...

Friday, 12 August 2016

Alwayswriteagain: For Rainy, He Reigneth Every Day ..!

Alwayswriteagain: For Rainy, He Reigneth Every Day ..!: Like all brilliant ideas it was simple. Knowledge is power. So, mused journalist Mark Ulyseas , share it via an online cultural journal th...

Monday, 8 August 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Honour Bright: Does Ben Suffer from Stockholm Synd...

Alwayswriteagain: Honour Bright: Does Ben Suffer from Stockholm Synd...:   The text berlow is a direct quote from that first published on Youtube yesterday, Sunday 07 Aug 2016: My view is that the benighted Mr...

Sunday, 7 August 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Sporting Chance for Brazil’s Finest Flower

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Sporting Chance for Brazil’s Finest Flower:   Almost 30 years after his death, the modernist poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade is still regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer of the 20th...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Sporting Chance for Brazil’s Finest Flower

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Sporting Chance for Brazil’s Finest Flower:   Almost 30 years after his death, the modernist poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade is still regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer of the 20th...

Monday, 25 July 2016

Alwayswriteagain: ‘They Tried to Kill Us. We Won. Let's Eat!’

Alwayswriteagain: ‘They Tried to Kill Us. We Won. Let's Eat!’: Remember how the Israeli secret agents in Steven Spielberg ’s Munich enjoy a huge nosh up before going out to catch their prey? In scene ...

Friday, 15 July 2016

Alwayswriteagain: From His Lips …!

Alwayswriteagain: From His Lips …!: Marsha Kolman introduces Yisrael Ne'eman at last night's packed ESRA Karmiel meeting. Mr Ne'eman, an Israel-based historian...

Monday, 4 July 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Yeats Saw This Coming

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Yeats Saw This Coming: Even former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Lord Sa cks says the present worldwide political storm is like nothing he’s seen in his lifetime. ...

Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Plagiarism? It’s Plain Theft!

Alwayswriteagain: Plagiarism? It’s Plain Theft!: The Atlantic magazine is a hugely respected literary journal whose influence spreads throughout the English speaking and reading world. So...

Saturday, 11 June 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Terrorism –Then and Now

Alwayswriteagain: Terrorism –Then and Now: It was Wednesday last week and I’d barely assimilated details of a terrorist attack from the 1970s when I was assaulted by a barrage of fre...

Sunday, 5 June 2016

Alwayswriteagain: What a Lot of Bottle!

Alwayswriteagain: What a Lot of Bottle!: Take one enchanted evening. Line with unreasonably pretty surroundings at the Baron’s Gardens, Rosh Pina, Galilee. Pour in hundreds of w...

Monday, 16 May 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Right to Write in a Small, Still Voice

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Right to Write in a Small, Still Voice: Charles Adès Fishman is a Pulitzer Prize nominated Jewish poet who lives in the United States. Smita Sahay, young enough to be his daughter...

Sunday, 8 May 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The DNA Election, 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The DNA Election, 2016: With apologies to the Israeli poet, Zelda ( Shneurson Mishkowsky )       Everyone has a name for it. They imbibe it from their mum, ...

Thursday, 28 April 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Few Bees; Many Bonnets!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Few Bees; Many Bonnets!: Even as Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales was advising the world how to deliver Hamlet’s best known lines, I was reading an anthology of...

Friday, 8 April 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Yet Another Way to Leave Your Lover

Alwayswriteagain: Yet Another Way to Leave Your Lover: Fictional stories about domestic abuse always capture the public conscience. Why not? It happens so often in reality ,  imaginery versions s...

Sunday, 20 March 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Being Adam MacDonald …

Alwayswriteagain: Being Adam MacDonald …: Adam MacDonald is a Canadian  actor turned film director probably best known to his countrymen as the villain, Josh MacIntosh in the  popul...

Thursday, 10 March 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Deer Only Here for the Beer!

Alwayswriteagain: Deer Only Here for the Beer!: Israel’s Ayalim (‘Deer’) Ass ociation encourages young immigrants to live in the country’s less populated areas in the Galilee and the Ne...

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Israel: Poetic Friends and Enemas

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Israel: Poetic Friends and Enemas: I have just spent a fruitless half-hour searching for an English translation of any poetry by the Israeli witer, Benny Ziffer . But it’s as...

Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Alwayswriteagain: A Betrayal Beyond Compare

Alwayswriteagain: A Betrayal Beyond Compare: Dr Harold Shipman was Britain’s most notorious and prolific serial killer. No wonder former High Court Judge Dame Janet Smith , who chair...

Sunday, 6 March 2016

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Give It a Rest - Bitch Face!’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Give It a Rest - Bitch Face!’:   Scientists  now say that the emotion they term  ‘Resting Bitch Face’ is real. This is where “ subtle facial expressions like a slightly ...

Alwayswriteagain: Where – and Why! - the Shepherd Began His Journey

Alwayswriteagain: Where – and Why! - the Shepherd Began His Journey: Remember the Bedouin shepherd who made a solo odyssey to the west? Now’s your chance to see where his courageous journey began!  Join an E...

Monday, 22 February 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: What Katie Did First!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: What Katie Did First!: The year was 1988 and a 14-year-old London school girl named Kate Moss was on her first fashion shoot.  Photographer Owen Scarbiena advi...

Thursday, 18 February 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Taking the Hump!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Taking the Hump!: Har Gamal , just outside Karmiel, Lower Galilee is a hill with a twin-humped camel-shaped top, formed by centuries of wind and rain erosion....

Wednesday, 17 February 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Writing More for the Ear than the Eye

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Writing More for the Ear than the Eye: Madison Smartt Bell is an American novelist best known for his stories about the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint Louverture,   a leader of...

Sunday, 14 February 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: They Were Also at Entebbe

PerfectlyWritePoetry: They Were Also at Entebbe: In memory of the civilian hostages murdered at Entebbe, July 1976. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Operation Entebbe, the counter-...

Friday, 12 February 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Always with His Heart

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Always with His Heart: While cynics insist that Valentine’s Day is vastly overrated, newspapers like  Britain’s   The  Telegraph   have treated readers  to  a  sel...

Saturday, 6 February 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Another Poet. But This One’s King!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Another Poet. But This One’s King!: I’ve been astounded to discover that modern Israeli high school students know little or nothing of their country’s major poets. This surel...

Sunday, 31 January 2016

Alwayswriteagain: A Sky-High Family Saga

Alwayswriteagain: A Sky-High Family Saga: The death of a child may tear a family apart and it takes a strong one to weather the storms of  grief and recrimination that surely follow....

Monday, 18 January 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Renew This Town’s Life - As in Days of Old

Alwayswriteagain: Renew This Town’s Life - As in Days of Old: “Help us turn to You, and we shall return. Renew our lives as in days of old” הֲשִׁיבֵנוּ יְהֹוָה | אֵלֶיךָ וְנָשׁוּבָה (כתיב וְנָשׁוּבָ)חַ...

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Of Great Wisdom and Hot Wine!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Of Great Wisdom and Hot Wine!: A public reading of favourite poems invariably says as much about the participants as the authors and the works they choose. Certainly, the...

Sunday, 10 January 2016

Alwayswriteagain: ‘Tempest’ Blows in Fair Winds of Arab-Israel Dialo...

Alwayswriteagain: ‘Tempest’ Blows in Fair Winds of Arab-Israel Dialo...: So, even British Prime Minister, David Cameron is a Shakespeare fan! An opinion piece penned by him and published in early January by Isr...

Saturday, 9 January 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Giving Israel It’s Day in Court

Alwayswriteagain: Giving Israel It’s Day in Court: Almost exactly five years ago, former US President Jimmy Carter was sued for allegedly defamatory remarks he made about  Israel in his boo...

Friday, 8 January 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Nahariya's Three Thousand Year Old Citadel

Alwayswriteagain: Nahariya's Three Thousand Year Old Citadel: The remains of a 3,400-year-old Canaanite citadel unearthed in the beach resort of Nahariya, northern Israel will become part of a smart b...

Monday, 4 January 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Life and Death: It’s All Timing in the Feisty Stat...

Alwayswriteagain: Life and Death: It’s All Timing in the Feisty Stat...: It’s all down to timing.    Jewish Israelis Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi were in the wrong place at the wrong time in Tel Aviv on ...

Sunday, 3 January 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Saturday Night Irish Fever – In Haifa!

Alwayswriteagain: Saturday Night Irish Fever – In Haifa!: Plans for the opening night of the new branch of Patrick’s Irish Pub in Kiryat Biyalik, Haifa must still be under wraps. But whateve...

Saturday, 2 January 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Mollie Kaplansky – ATribute

Alwayswriteagain: Mollie Kaplansky – ATribute: While one of my long-time US friends in Israel barely avoided being caught  in the New Year’s Day terrorist incident in Tel Aviv, it is my  ...

Wednesday, 30 December 2015

Alwayswriteagain: ‘We’re Not in Kansas Any More’!

Alwayswriteagain: ‘We’re Not in Kansas Any More’!: This essay was supposed to examine why so many western immigrants to Israel return to their birth countries or move on elsewhere. But a sta...

Monday, 28 December 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Make Eating a Joy

Alwayswriteagain: Make Eating a Joy: Only in Naples is a fun book with a serious message. Author Katherine Wilson makes it clear that when families eat (and sometimes pray) t...

Sunday, 20 December 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: It's Never, Ever, 'All Over'.

PerfectlyWritePoetry: It's Never, Ever, 'All Over'.: Bob Dylan 's song, It' s All Over Now, Baby Blue , prompted the theme of veteran US writer Joyce Carol Oates 's most noted s...

Saturday, 19 December 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Still Sowing Wild 'Oates'!

Alwayswriteagain: Still Sowing Wild 'Oates'!: N ow aged 77, Joyce Carol Oates still writes with the terrific – and terrifying vigour of a young woman flowing in full spate. Mo...

Friday, 18 December 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Poetry with Punch

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Poetry with Punch: When I opened this blog in April last year, I mused on the nature of poetry, and suggested that a poem is more than its base material...

Tuesday, 8 December 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Then – and Now

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Then – and Now: (“ Generation after generation reads the same words and says: ‘Was that then or is that now’?” – Rabbi Lord Sacks)   Then and Now   An...

Monday, 7 December 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Rudolf Abel’s Anglo-Jewish Connection?

Alwayswriteagain: Rudolf Abel’s Anglo-Jewish Connection?: I’m beginning to wonder if Soviet Cold War spy, Colonel Rudolf Abel was acquainted with anyone in the Jewish community of  Newcastle upon...

Sunday, 6 December 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘Time for You and Time for Me’

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘Time for You and Time for Me’:   Cake   “Cake – let’s have cake”, you said. The same rotund vowels that robed us in a swish of velvet drapes drawn swiftly against ...

Monday, 23 November 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The World Is Their Wedding

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The World Is Their Wedding: A young Israeli couple have issued an open invitation to their wedding in Jerusalem on Thursday. Sarah Techiya Litman and Ariel Biegel se...

Friday, 13 November 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Brave New World in Galilee!

Alwayswriteagain: Brave New World in Galilee!: The innovative English language ADG-TNT Theatre Company hopes to return to Israel next spring with a nationwide touring production of Shakes...

Thursday, 12 November 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Coco the Swinger - Another Wandering Jew

Alwayswriteagain: Coco the Swinger - Another Wandering Jew: Events in Europe marking the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht were as bad as they were bizarre. Hanin Zoabi , the extremist Arab...

Sunday, 8 November 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Where the Cage Bird Was Forced to Sing

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Where the Cage Bird Was Forced to Sing:   When the Basque composer,  Sebastian de Iradier composed La Paloma - his  universally loved habanera (Cuban dance melody) - little cou...

Saturday, 31 October 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Most Beloved One of All

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Most Beloved One of All: (Prompted by a translation of a Greek poem inscribed on the wall of the burial cave at Beit Guvrin, south of Jerusalem). Betrothed to Me...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘The Art of Impalement’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘The Art of Impalement’: “The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all”  – George Orwell, 1984 . ---------------- “Good...

Monday, 19 October 2015

Karmiel Writers Group Expands!

 

 

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Friday, 16 October 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Jewish Poet of Sri Lanka

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Jewish Poet of Sri Lanka: The huge swathes  of immigrants currently flooding Europe will soon learn that they’ll make and re-make their lives a dozen times over befor...

Tuesday, 13 October 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Days of Rage

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Days of Rage: Some traditions believe that when one dreams of the skies raining stones or blood, it foretells disaster; a punishment for sin. ( http://dr...

Alwayswriteagain: Living in Fear

Alwayswriteagain: Living in Fear: As the Mayor of Nazareth Ali Salem has condemned  fellow Arab politician,  Ayman Odeh for helping to encourage the current spate anti-Jew...

Friday, 9 October 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Herschel Silverman –‘Beat Poet Candy Man’

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Herschel Silverman –‘Beat Poet Candy Man’: Below is a clip of a reading by US Beat poet Herschel Silverman who died last month aged 89. If you rub your chin and confide that his na...

Monday, 5 October 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Sorry, I Wrote!

Alwayswriteagain: Sorry, I Wrote!: It’s now uber chic to insult someone – and then apologise. It makes life so easy. But the damage has been done; the mud sticks and the s...

Friday, 2 October 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: This Dinner Guest’s Personal Exodus?

PerfectlyWritePoetry: This Dinner Guest’s Personal Exodus?: Even as a strong IRAC (Israel Religion Action Centre) supporter and its feisty director, Anat Hoffman I can’t agree with everything she and...

Alwayswriteagain: Walks on the Wild – and Wet – Side!

Alwayswriteagain: Walks on the Wild – and Wet – Side!: Wilder and yet more wondrous grows the free, on-street entertainment offered by Israeli municipalities and never has this been more evident ...

Friday, 25 September 2015

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Saving Private Grief’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Saving Private Grief’: “I have a story to tell about the opening of the film, Saving Private Ryan . This was about 17 years ago and my then best friend – I’m s...

Tuesday, 22 September 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Burden of Great Age

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Burden of Great Age: When Goldie Steinberg died on August 16, 2015 she was aged 114 and the oldest verified Jewish person in the world. Mrs Steinberg had also ...

Saturday, 19 September 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Why Hungarian Envoy Loves Israel

Alwayswriteagain: Why Hungarian Envoy Loves Israel: The centre piece of this year’s international Karmiel Dance Festival was an open-air performance of Zorba the Greek performed by the  N...

Alwayswriteagain: Why Hungarian Envoy Loves Israel

Alwayswriteagain: Why Hungarian Envoy Loves Israel: The centre piece of this year’s international Karmiel Dance Festival was an open-air performance of Zorba the Greek performed by the  N...

Tuesday, 15 September 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Day of Love - and Hatred

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Day of Love - and Hatred: Israeli authorities are ‘convinced’ that Jewish extremists perpetrated the firebombing of two adjacent homes in the northern West Bank Arab ...

Sunday, 6 September 2015

Alwayswriteagain: כתיבה וחתימה טובה 5776

Alwayswriteagain: כתיבה וחתימה טובה 5776: With every good wish for a happy, healthy and sweet Jewish New Year, 5776 from Natalie Wood and Brian Fink in Karmiel, Galilee, Israel. ...

Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Alwayswriteagain: From This Weakness Comes Forth Strength!

Alwayswriteagain: From This Weakness Comes Forth Strength!: It is widely accepted that suicide is a leading cause of death among young adults in India and among the top three causes of death in the p...

Saturday, 29 August 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Reigns in Spain – Mainly All the Same!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Reigns in Spain – Mainly All the Same!:   “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, ....” ( Hamlet , Act 1 Scene 2 – Shakespeare) Yesterday, I posted  an item showing how the ...

Friday, 28 August 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘Matis’ Affair Proves Jews Still Tried for Their B...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘Matis’ Affair Proves Jews Still Tried for Their B...: On Sunday of this past week  Matisyahu , the US Jewish rap artist performed at the Rototom Sunsplash Festival in Benicassim, Spain amid hec...

Saturday, 22 August 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: At the Art Café, Tzfat

PerfectlyWritePoetry: At the Art Café, Tzfat: At the Art Café, Tzfat Last night I ate inside a painting.  The north light had long since fled, fearful of th...

Friday, 21 August 2015

Alwayswriteagain: The Love of Complete Contempt

Alwayswriteagain: The Love of Complete Contempt: “For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!” (Isaiah, 21:6) “I have said what I wanted to say...

Alwayswriteagain: A Glimpse of ‘The Threat Beneath’

Alwayswriteagain: A Glimpse of ‘The Threat Beneath’: Ilya Meyer Swedish-born Israel advocate, Ilya Meyer returns to Karmiel next month to discuss the second book in his thriller serie...

Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Naughty – but Nice!

Alwayswriteagain: Naughty – but Nice!: “Never”, advised writer Warren Sanford Lee , stabbing a slab of darkly luscious cake, “eat chocolate before you talk in public. It alters yo...

Saturday, 1 August 2015

Alwayswriteagain: A Most Sacred Circle of Friends

Alwayswriteagain: A Most Sacred Circle of Friends: About 155,000 people die around the world each day. But this crude figure seems like nothing when we’re faced with personal loss. Even  ho...

Monday, 27 July 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: His God Was Sun!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: His God Was Sun!: Another Seascape with Storm Coming On ‘The sun is God’ – JMW Turner     January and deepest winter. Turner’s in the sky at Acco. ...

Saturday, 25 July 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: From Pakistan to Israel – in Peace

PerfectlyWritePoetry: From Pakistan to Israel – in Peace: Political relations between Israel and Pakistan remain troubled, highly complex and as I write, a sole self-declared Jew,   Fishel Benkhald ...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Another Prize for a Poet of Peace

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Another Prize for a Poet of Peace:   Israeli poet and writer, Ada Aharoni has been awarded the Haifa Citizen Award for her outstanding contribution to world peace and cult...

Tuesday, 21 July 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Reuben Rose Poetry Competition 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Reuben Rose Poetry Competition 2015: The 26th annual Reuben Rose Poetry Competition of Voices Israel is open for entries, now until 15 September 2015. Reuben Rose was among ...

Sunday, 19 July 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: When Fantasy Meets Reality

PerfectlyWritePoetry: When Fantasy Meets Reality: Here’s something original! An animated poem describing how a child’s imagination helps him to cope with reality. The words of  Bensonhurst...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: When Fantasy Meets Reality

PerfectlyWritePoetry: When Fantasy Meets Reality: Here’s something original! An animated poem describing how a child’s imagination helps him to cope with reality. The words of  Bensonhurst...

Alwayswriteagain: All Heart and No Heart: The Debate About Jewish Id...

Alwayswriteagain: All Heart and No Heart: The Debate About Jewish Id...: The UK Assembly of Reform Rabbis has decided that people born of  a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother will no longer have to undergo a ful...

Friday, 17 July 2015

Alwayswriteagain: In His Own Words …

Alwayswriteagain: In His Own Words …: During a week when Viennese-born publisher George Lord Weidenfeld is reported to be funding the rescue of about 2,000 Christians from Syria...

Alwayswriteagain: Return of a Wandering Star

Alwayswriteagain: Return of a Wandering Star: Tour the old quarter in Rosh Pina, Galilee and the guide will enthral you with tales of how the early East European chalutzim – pioneers – b...

Friday, 3 July 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: All Their Sons

PerfectlyWritePoetry: All Their Sons: Today I start with a cliché. Big people make huge mistakes and there’s no-one writ larger in British journalism than the gutsy, feisty, cand...

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Alwayswriteagain: THURSDAY IN THE PARK WITH ESRA KARMIEL!

Alwayswriteagain: THURSDAY IN THE PARK WITH ESRA KARMIEL!: ESRA Karmiel celebrated its fifth anniversary with a picnic and country and western style sing-along in the town’s Galilee Park. The musi...

Monday, 29 June 2015

Alwayswriteagain: “We’re All Israelis”– Bedouin Envoy

Alwayswriteagain: “We’re All Israelis”– Bedouin Envoy: Israel’s first Bedouin diplomat attracted a record 80-plus crowd to the penultimate social event of the Karmiel Anglo community calendar bef...

Sunday, 28 June 2015

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘The Price of Love’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘The Price of Love’: The day I proposed to Eunice was Saturday 20 July 1957. A big day for us during an exciting period for Britain. “Most of our people have n...

Saturday, 27 June 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Whistling in the Dark!

Alwayswriteagain: Whistling in the Dark!: Twenty-seven years ago, on Sunday 26  June 1988, I married my husband, Brian Fink . Now let’s look at other  world-changing events that h...

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Aching for the Past

Alwayswriteagain: Aching for the Past: I am no fan of National Novel Writing Month . It smacks too much of an international publishers’ promotion fest for my tastes. So it’s for...

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Alwayswriteagain: A Good Shepherd Who Loves Israel

Alwayswriteagain: A Good Shepherd Who Loves Israel: In what is being regarded as a  triumph for both sides, ESRA Karmiel is to host a lecture by Israel’s first Bedouin diplomat. Moreover, I...

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Poetic Slivers from a Dreary Slice of Life

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Poetic Slivers from a Dreary Slice of Life: I’ve never attended a Jewish funeral (‘ memorial ’) service  that has started with a secular poem and included the universal Lord’s Prayer ...

Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Debbie’s P.A.W.S. in Israel!

Alwayswriteagain: Debbie’s P.A.W.S. in Israel!: No w, here’s a conundrum: Which UK-born young adult fiction writer with links to Israel also enjoys constructing puzzles? I’m thi...

Sunday, 24 May 2015

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘A Witness to Israeli Racism Speaks Out’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘A Witness to Israeli Racism Speaks Out’: Anna Grynhaus , Social Affairs Editor, Liberal Israel and Modern Orthodox Rabbi Ren é Bloch examine the tensions tearing the fabric of ...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A ‘Need’ to Break the Silence!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A ‘Need’ to Break the Silence!: The poem Need written by deaf poet Peter Cook and his hearing counterpart, Kenny Lerner was devised in 2008, partly as a response to the ...

Saturday, 23 May 2015

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘On First Looking into Hitchcock’s Holocaust’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘On First Looking into Hitchcock’s Holocaust’: “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies” ( On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - John Keats) “I can’t believe my own eyes” gas...

Friday, 15 May 2015

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Mourning After

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Mourning After: ( Based on a Times of Israel critique by Melanie Lidman of the international aid and rescue efforts made following the Nepal Earthquake, Apr...

Monday, 11 May 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Jews Imprisoned by the Colour of Their Skin

Alwayswriteagain: Jews Imprisoned by the Colour of Their Skin: “Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children of Israel?” (Amos 9:7) Israel is the land of the paradox. “We don’...

Saturday, 9 May 2015

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: The End of FridayFlash.org.?

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: The End of FridayFlash.org.?: In announcement that could well be the opener for a micro-mystery, Jon Strother of  FridayFlash.org has announced the closure of the webs...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Alwayswriteagain: The Christian Gospel - According to Amos Oz!

Alwayswriteagain: The Christian Gospel - According to Amos Oz!: The Yezreel Valley College, Galilee is preparing to host one of Israel’s most distinguished living novelists for a reading of his latest wo...