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WEEK ENDING 3rd DECEMBER 2016 The weather is not normally a topic of conversation here in Israel. Occasionally when there is a Sharav, the hot dry wind that blows from
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WEEK ENDING 5th NOVEMBER 2016 Israel has been enjoying a long summer, and Sukkot despite being so late in October was sunny and dry, and the weather remains extremely pleasant.
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA WEEK ENDING 24TH SEPTEMBER 201 It’s been a good summer including the unforgettable 50th anniversary of the Belmont Synagogue where I was the first Minister. To
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM EDGWARE WEEK ENDING 6TH AUGUST 2016 This Shabbat is the 100th birthday of one of the great figures of Anglo Jewry, Lieutenant-Colonel Mordaunt Cohen, TD, DL. Mordaunt
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WEEK ENDING 3RD JUNE 2016 Last month I went to three of the oldest provincial communities in England. Each has a glorious history, and all have unusual buildings or artefacts
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA – WEEK ENDING 7TH MAY 2016 Rabbi Dr Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (1903-1993) was the major leader of Modern Orthodoxy in the United States during the 20th
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Israel at the moment is in the lovely gap between Purim and Pesach. Last week the country was full of people in fancy dress, after a week of preparation schools
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Last Monday I ventured for the first time into a Hebrew play at the Habimah theatre in Tel Aviv. The Habimah started life in Bialystok in 1912 and despite persecution
View from Netanya
Dear Friends, I attach the current Elkan’s view which I hope you will enjoy. Elkan’s view was originally created to fill a gap for Radlett synagogue before the appointment of
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM BUDAPEST 23 December 2015 From left to right: The Levy-Landau family – Eddie, Julian, Joshua, Jasmine. The Gurwitz family – Sam, Abigail, Jamie,
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM CAPE TOWN 9TH November 2015 South African Jewry is unique in world Jewish history. Some of the early Jewish settlers became Boers, spoke Afrikaans, and fought against
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 4TH November 2015 One of the things that really moves me is the way that Jewish communities in the Diaspora, at Pesach and Sukkot, pray for
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 21st October 2015 Doubtless you have been reading in the British papers, and seeing footage on the news, which suggests that life in Israel at the
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 7th October 2015 As usual the Festival of Sukkot in Israel was delightful. The weather has been unseasonably warm, with short sleeves and shorts being perfectly
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM RADLETT 9th September 2015 Rosh Hashanah is a time for reflection. In Jewish tradition it is only one of four new years. The others are 1st Nissan
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 2nd September 2015 A week on Sunday will mark the beginning of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, days of prayer and introspection when Am Yisrael, the
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 26th August 2015 To the considerable relief of parents and grandparents, an emotion not shared in the main by the students, the Chofesh Hagadol, the long
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 19th August 2015 Israel has been horrified internally by some of the events that have taken place in recent weeks, including the tragic murder of a
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 12th August 2015 Like most people of my generation I can remember when Panorama, chaired by the unfogetteble Richard Dimbleby, embodied all the qualities inculcated into
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM RADLETT 5th August 2015 It’s getting nasty. Obama, trying to leave some sort of acceptable legacy behind him, has crafted the agreement with Iran in an attempt