PerfectlyWritePoetry: Young Lives Dished up on a Silver Platter

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Young Lives Dished up on a Silver Platter: As luck would have it, the conclusion of Israel's spring festive season coincides neatly with the last week of Global Poetry Writing Mo...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: HOW THE CORONA PASSED OVER

PerfectlyWritePoetry: HOW THE CORONA PASSED OVER: My kids spent Corona Passover wandering like Arameans, skipping upstairs and down, inside and out, playing the goat, waving and blowin...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Passover Super Moon 2020

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Passover Super Moon 2020: (With apologies to Yip Harburg and Billy Rose) I s it really a super moon floating over a bloated sea lighting a way to save...

Alwayswriteagain: Corona and the Myth that’s Called ‘Goodwill’

Alwayswriteagain: Corona and the Myth that’s Called ‘Goodwill’: Most people are so determined to keep cheerful during these terrible times that many have invoked the mythical spirit of public goodwill di...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Passover in a Year of Modern Plague

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Passover in a Year of Modern Plague: Passover in a Year of Modern Plague "What's true of all the evils in the world is true of the plague as well. It helps men to ris...

Alwayswriteagain: Coronavirus – Don’t Succumb to Fear!

Alwayswriteagain: Coronavirus – Don’t Succumb to Fear!: Today I declined an invitation to join a ‘Coronavirus’ Facebook group. This is despite reading that last week an infected individua...

Alwayswriteagain: The Desert Vixen – and Her Fox!

Alwayswriteagain: The Desert Vixen – and Her Fox!: As the arguments about the prosecution of British Armed Forces’ veterans for alleged war crimes in Northern Ireland and the Middle Eas...

Alwayswriteagain: Stunned, Stuck, Sliced: Is Animal Welfare Mere KIi...

Alwayswriteagain: Stunned, Stuck, Sliced: Is Animal Welfare Mere KIi...: Aleph Farms, an Israeli food-technology company, claims to have cultured slaughter-free meat in space . Great news for animal welfa...

Alwayswriteagain: Jewish Life? Apparently Not!

Alwayswriteagain: Jewish Life? Apparently Not!: I began reading ** Appearances: A Novel hoping that the author’s intent is satire. Alas, no! This is a po-faced account of a self-c...

Alwayswriteagain: A Wandering Spirit Laid to Rest

Alwayswriteagain: A Wandering Spirit Laid to Rest: As many Israelis were picking over the detritus discarded on the latest national election battlefield, a group of us paid homage to a...

Alwayswriteagain: Measure for Measure – and Us,Too!

Alwayswriteagain: Measure for Measure – and Us,Too!: In an Israel where one political party yearns to turn the state into a theocracy, another brazenly loathes homosexuals and innumerable pu...

Alwayswriteagain: Europe’s Mental Health Chiefs Have an Israel Rethi...

Alwayswriteagain: Europe’s Mental Health Chiefs Have an Israel Rethi...: It seems that ENMESH, the European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation , may reverse a recent decision not to hold a planned conf...

Alwayswriteagain: Between a Barrel and a Hard Place!

Alwayswriteagain: Between a Barrel and a Hard Place!: Meg Shelton - the ‘Fylde Hag’ – was crushed to death between a barrel and a wall and then buried as a witch. But this was not good...

Alwayswriteagain: Loveless and Lonesome Among the Fiddlers on the Ro...

Alwayswriteagain: Loveless and Lonesome Among the Fiddlers on the Ro...: It is hard enough for any grandchild to edit and publish a brutally frank memoir by a cherished forebear. But it must have bee...

Alwayswriteagain: Galilee Songs at Sunset

Alwayswriteagain: Galilee Songs at Sunset: A high summer, Sabbath eve, open-air concert in the amphitheatre at Amirim, Galilee - with a view of Lake Kinneret - the Sea of Galilee as ...

Alwayswriteagain: Why Notts. Prof Sent Israel to Coventry

Alwayswriteagain: Why Notts. Prof Sent Israel to Coventry: It comes to a pretty pass when a respected British professor of “mental health recovery and social inclusion” fronts the apparent deliber...

Alwayswriteagain: The Stuff of Legend!

Alwayswriteagain: The Stuff of Legend!: A burst of nostalgic interest on social media in an old-fashioned sweet treat named ‘stuffed monkey’ has had me looking at the life and wor...

Alwayswriteagain: The Making of ‘Manchester House’

Alwayswriteagain: The Making of ‘Manchester House’: On Sunday 14 June 1964, Alderman Abraham Moss , among the greatest of the grand panjandrums of mid-20 th century civic and Anglo-Jewish a...

Alwayswriteagain: Boris, the Camberwell Beauty

Alwayswriteagain: Boris, the Camberwell Beauty: South London lepidopterists on a nocturnal field-trip have discovered a sub-genus of the Camberwell Beauty . The ‘ Boris ’, s...

Alwayswriteagain: The Arithmetic of Autism

Alwayswriteagain: The Arithmetic of Autism: The story of the autistic high priestess of global climate protest marries two of the tin gods of our age. But where would Swedish teen...