Many of us “older” people are totally unaware of the most powerful, the most widespread and the most wealthy religion in the world today. It is a religion that attracts as its devotees virtually all the young people on our globe. They spend more time deep into the night on it than on any other single activity–and often more than…
The Grand Old Duke of York
Oh the Grand Old Duke of YorkHe had ten thousand menHe marched them up to the top of the hillAnd he marched them down againAnd when they were up they were upAnd when they were down they were downAnd when they were only half way upThey were neither up nor down. Now, I know I am no military expert. I…
Prejudice
I guess the media (and I) needed a break from Lebanon, since they have got so excited over Mel Gibson’s drunken outburst against Jews for running the world and being the cause of all human suffering. You mean you didn’t know that that’s what millions of people really think? Three years ago I was invited to a private screening of…
To Be Or Not To Be
Reflections whilst fasting on Tisha B’Av. The superstitious side of me (yes I do indeed have that little irrational spirit sitting inside my brain that needs to be swatted regularly) says that of course the war would be tough during the Nine Days, but that as soon as it is over and the Shabbat of Comfort begins everything will get…
Not the UN
Calls for the United Nations to send peacekeepers into Lebanon are a sick joke. Have we forgotten that previously Indian UN peacekeepers lent their uniforms to Hezbollah? Indeed, are we all unaware that there are UN “peacekeepers” in Southern Lebanon still, at this very moment? What HAVE they been doing? The United Nations is useless and it should be scrapped.…
Rabbi Louis Jacobs
Accolades have been rightfully heaped upon Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs in death (in stark contrast to the scandalous way most of Anglo-Jewry treated him when he was alive). But his loss will not have much effect on Anglo-Jewry, precisely because his brand of Judaism has become very much a minority interest. Once, ironically, it was that of the more Orthodox…