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ELKAN’S VIEW 11th March 2015 “See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, and the cooing
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ELKAN’S VIEW 4th March 2015 It’s Purim this week, and the chaos that descends on communities outside Israel is written large on the whole country. You expect to see people
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ELKAN’S VIEW 25th February 2015 Israel is building itself up for the elections on 17 March, and like the electoral perspective in the UK, the situation in Israel gives no
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ELKAN’S VIEW 18th February 2015 I am writing this after two amazing weeks in Hong Kong and Thailand. I had never been East of Israel and the interaction with other
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ELKAN’S VIEW 11th February 2015 Returning to last week’s topic; one of the problems as Melanie Phillips saw it, and I believe she is absolutely right, is the breakdown of
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ELKAN’S VIEW 4th February 2015 I belong to the Jerusalem branch of the Jewish Historical Society of England. This has some very good and extremely interesting lectures, and last week
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ELKAN’S VIEW 28th January 2015 Over the last few days I have been watching “The Eichmann Show” the docudrama on BBC television about the filming of the Eichmann trial in
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ELKAN’S VIEW 21st January 2015 Is this how the media would have reported this week’s Sedrah? ISRAELITES CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES – EGYPTIAN CIVILIANS SUFFER AS ISRAELITES DANCE AT THE
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ELKAN’S VIEW 14th January 2015 Last week’s events in Paris have possibly changed the world we live in, although my cynical reluctance to admit that the nations of the West
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ELKAN’S VIEW 7th January 2015 Israel is beginning to warm up for the elections on 17 March, which sadly offer no clear possibility of a radical change in leadership. Bibi
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I am writing this on Wednesday 31st December. Last Thursday was 25th December, a day which part in this part of Israel, at least, is without any special significance.This is
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Chanukah has arrived in Israel and with it all the joys of this midwinter festival. Chanukiot abound in all places, and the custom to light seems to be universal and
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Israel today is a sober sad and angry place. The conflict between Israelis and Arabs, Jews and Palestinians, appears to be escalating and becoming uglier every day. The attack on
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One of the most amazing things about being Jewish is the recurrent examples of the indestructibility of the human spirit that one encounters. Last Shabbat I had the privilege –
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Sometimes we forget the land of Israel has a long history with other faiths who have contributed to its development, and also that some of the most undesirable features of
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I did security outside shul last Shabbat. This is an experience which is very new to me since in Radlett I am regarded as being “otherwise engaged” and not liable
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Israel is beginning to get nervous about the actions of both extremist Arabs and extremist Jews in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Arab terrorism and’s Jewish settler response are not
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Israel this week is warm and sunny, and everyone is back to shirtsleeves after the storms of Sukkot. Stories of the weather, usually common discussion in England, have suddenly become
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The most significant ending and beginning in the whole of the Jewish year is upon us. The Torah is the core of Jewish identity, the document from which ultimately we
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I am writing this on the day after Yom Kippur from Radlett, an active Jewish community in South West Hertfordshire, almost rural but with excellent transport links. The result has