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. “...