Thursday, 19 January 2017

Alwayswriteagain: Catching Fallen Stars

Alwayswriteagain: Catching Fallen Stars: When some years ago Queen Elizabeth remarked that “grief is the price we pay for love”, she did not merely popularise a truism but quoted t...

Saturday, 14 January 2017

Alwayswriteagain: Of Biblical Secrets, Truths and Doubts

Alwayswriteagain: Of Biblical Secrets, Truths and Doubts: I am unaccustomed to reviewing books about Christian theology and many of this blog’s regular readers will be justified in thinking I’ve jum...

Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Alwayswriteagain: Where Lovers, Lasses Count Their Losses!

Alwayswriteagain: Where Lovers, Lasses Count Their Losses!: I was more than half-way through Philip Roth ’s American Pastoral when I realised that the location of the prizewinning novel and recent ...

Saturday, 17 December 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Why Islam Cannot Be Modernised

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Why Islam Cannot Be Modernised: Amid warnings that the fall of Aleppo may be just the start of “a bloodier phase” in Syria’s continuing civil war, I’d like to take time o...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Why Islam Cannot Be Modernised

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Why Islam Cannot Be Modernised: Amid warnings that the fall of Aleppo may be just the start of “a bloodier phase” in Syria’s continuing civil war, I’d like to take time o...

Saturday, 3 December 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Being Alone –Together!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Being Alone –Together!: Israeli President Reuven Rivlin was abroad when his predecessor Shimon Peres died. So  perhaps his visit and important speech to the Ukra...

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Winter Arrives – a Week Too Late

Alwayswriteagain: Winter Arrives – a Week Too Late: Winter is beginning to make its presence felt in Israel. But only just and about seven days too late. If only the  hard blistrering winds...

Saturday, 26 November 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: As Great Men Leave The World ….

PerfectlyWritePoetry: As Great Men Leave The World ….: Among the flood of tributes to the late Cuban leader, Fidel Castro has been one at The Guardian newspaper where historian Richard Gott no...

Thursday, 27 October 2016

Alwayswriteagain: U. S. in the Shadow of Kennedy’s Glare

Alwayswriteagain: U. S. in the Shadow of Kennedy’s Glare: Everyone then alive remembers where they were – what they were doing – when US President  John Kennedy was murdered. It was a terrifying p...

Wednesday, 19 October 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Living Will

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Living Will: This poem was first written as part of a  story and has been published in its present form by Mark Ulyseas of   L ive Encounters Magazine ...

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Alwayswriteagain: What Will Larry and Kate Do Next?

Alwayswriteagain: What Will Larry and Kate Do Next?: South African-born software creator Daniel J Miller is not all he seems. So it’s no surprise that when he wears his other hat as writer, D...

Sunday, 16 October 2016

Alwayswriteagain: One Woman’s Appeal for ‘No War, No More’

Alwayswriteagain: One Woman’s Appeal for ‘No War, No More’: On November 23 1956 the ancient Jewish community of Egypt was obliterated overnight. Thousands of people, many of whose families had hel...

Thursday, 13 October 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: This Nobel Prize Is No Joke!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: This Nobel Prize Is No Joke!: As luck would have it,  I was reading an obituary of Italian Nobel literary laureate, Dario Fo when news broke about this year’s winner, Bo...

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Sage Advice Needed Here

Alwayswriteagain: Sage Advice Needed Here: When we recall the story of the Vietnamese Boat People we tend to think of refugees who fled their war ravaged homeland and Communism to in...

Alwayswriteagain: Delayed British Government Report on "’Muslim-Only...

Alwayswriteagain: Delayed British Government Report on "’Muslim-Only...: The British Government has been accused of “allowing some areas [of the country] to operate as if they were Muslim-only zones." The Ho...

Saturday, 1 October 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Celebrating ‘Jewtown’

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Celebrating ‘Jewtown’:   Just in time for the Jewish New Year I’ve received  a sweet gift of poetry celebrating the story of the once vibrant Jewish community of...

Sunday, 25 September 2016

Alwayswriteagain: She Performs, She Prays …

Alwayswriteagain: She Performs, She Prays …:   There must be precious few secular  musicians  invited to lead synagogue prayers. But this happened last night  in Karmiel, Galilee whe...

Alwayswriteagain: 5777 כתיבה וחתימה טובה

Alwayswriteagain: 5777 כתיבה וחתימה טובה:   The first day of Rosh Hashana , the Jewish New Year, falls next week, Monday 03 October 2016. May everyone who is celebrating have a gr...

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: On Rachel’s Birthday …

PerfectlyWritePoetry: On Rachel’s Birthday …: Israelis love their writers so much that many  are lauded as latter- day seers and saints. So it is with Rachel Bluwstein whose 126th birt...

Friday, 16 September 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Jewish Dadaist Without Borders

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Jewish Dadaist Without Borders: Jacob Glatstein   ( Yankev Glatshteyn ) was one of the great figures of mid-20th century American Yiddish literature. I mention him now bec...

Tuesday, 13 September 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Disinheritance and Continuation

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Disinheritance and Continuation: In less than a month this past summer American writer John Sibley William s has become the father of twins and produced a new collection of...

Sunday, 11 September 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: What Black Poets Know By Heart

PerfectlyWritePoetry: What Black Poets Know By Heart: A 20-year-old US black poet has won the prestigious ‘Most Promising Young Poet Award’ from the Academy of American Poets. Donte Collins sc...

Thursday, 1 September 2016

Alwayswriteagain: Like Chalk – and Ashes?

Alwayswriteagain: Like Chalk – and Ashes?: An ageing, virginal spinster dies unexpectedly, leaving her dispirited suitor  to dine alone. An orphaned bull calf is reared on bottled mi...

Friday, 26 August 2016

Alwayswriteagain: From Monster to Mensch!

Alwayswriteagain: From Monster to Mensch!: Three days after his birth in July 1961,  American baby Howard Shulman developed a bacterial infection that devoured half his face.  But f...

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 ...