Tag Archives: First Temple

Good News Friday

Posted on 2 February 2018 by

Friday is here once again thank goodness, and it’s time for another Good News Friday edition. Let’s start with a great morale boost from none other than the British Defence Secretary (!) who hailed the UK’s amazing relationship with Israel: … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday

Posted on 16 June 2017 by

As always, despite the bad or indifferent news of the past week, Friday ushers in Shabbat, and to accompany it, here is my latest Good News Friday post. London has been engulfed by fire in recent days: two kosher shops … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday

Posted on 28 October 2016 by

The chagim are now well and truly behind us, and it’s back to normal programming (or what counts for normal in this household!). Tomorrow is Shabbat Bereishit, the Shabbat when we start reading the Torah from the beginning all over … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday

Posted on 30 September 2016 by

It has been a very strange and difficult week this week, and I’ve been having doubts about posting a Good News friday installment. My father is currently sitting shiva for his sister who passed away on Monday. We had a … Continue reading →

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Destroying Jewish history

Posted on 14 January 2013 by

In the middle of the Six Day War in 1967, Motta Gur may famously have announced “The Temple Mount is in our hands“, but the truth is that this is far from evident today.  The ongoing destruction at the hands … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday

Posted on 7 September 2012 by

Here’s the latest installment of my Good News Friday series. First the bad news. There have been a few antisemitic attacks recently in Germany which led a leading German rabbi to advise Jewish men to avoid wearing kipot (yarmulkes) in … Continue reading →

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