View from Radlett
ELKAN’S VIEW FROM RADLETT 29TH JULY 2015 One of the things about being Jewish is that we spend a great deal of time complaining. This is not a new thing;
View from Netanya
ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 23RD JULY 2015 On Saturday night and Sunday we will observe the fast of Tisha B’Av which this year actually falls on Shabbat. Since the only
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ELKAN’S VIEW 8th July 2015 Towards the end of last week the Chofesh Hagadol, the great long summer holidays, began in Israeli schools, and with the majority of parents working,
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ELKAN’S VIEW 1st July 2015 The boycott of Israel, so widely trumpeted, does possibly have a pernicious moral effect but in practice it is difficult to view it as a
View from Netanya
ELKAN’S VIEW 24th JUNE 2015 Israel is undoubtedly a very prosperous country but the division between the haves and the have-nots can at times be frighteningly large. Statistics reveal that
View from Natanya
ELKAN’S VIEW 17 June 2015 Anti-Semitism is an old and dangerous concept, but it mutates in different forms and requires different responses. Its latest form is BDS, the Boycott Divestment
View from Radlett
ELKAN’S VIEW 10 June 2015 France has a long and inglorious record of anti-Jewish actions. Although there were good times, and considerable mediaeval Jewish scholarship came from France (Rashi was
View from Dubrovnik
ELKAN’S VIEW 3rd June 2015 Jewish settlement in Croatia, where I will be when you read this, has had a long and very colourful history, although recently both sad and
View from the Negev
ELKAN’S VIEW 27TH May 2015 Last week I went with two of my grandchildren (and their parents) to spend Shavuot in Kibbutz Keturah which is in the Negev about 50
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ELKAN’S VIEW 20TH May 2015 One of the most irritating things about Western commentators on the Middle Eastern situation is that they ignore reality and assume that the Arabs are
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ELKAN’S VIEW 13TH May 2015 I have just lived through two general elections, in both of which I had a vote and in neither of which I voted. As a
View from Radlett
ELKAN’S VIEW 6th April 2015 One of the classic definitions of the Jewish people is that we are “Rachmanim bnai Rachmanim – Merciful human beings, the children of merciful human
View from Netanya
ELKAN’S VIEW 29th April 2015 Israel is a Jewish state which means that sometimes there are Jewish ways around problems. I got caught in Jerusalem some years ago doing something
View From Netanya
ELKAN’S VIEW 21st April 2015 I am writing this on the afternoon of Wednesday 21st April, Yom Hazikaron, the day of national memorial for the 23,320 Israeli soldiers who have
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ELKAN’S VIEW 15th April 2015 I was strolling through a park in Ra’anana last week when I heard an orchestra and choir rehearsing the Hatikvah. The tune is haunting, although
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ELKAN’S VIEW 1st April 2015 With Pesach beginning on Friday night, Israel is gripped with pre-holiday fever. I arrived back on Monday evening, turned on my phone and was greeted
View from Netanya
ELKAN’S VIEW 15th April 2015 I was strolling through a park in Ra’anana last week when I heard an orchestra and choir rehearsing the Hatikvah. The tune is haunting, although
View from Netanya
ELKAN’S VIEW 15th April 2015 I was strolling through a park in Ra’anana last week when I heard an orchestra and choir rehearsing the Hatikvah. The tune is haunting, although
View from Netanya
ELKAN’S VIEW 25h March 2015 Last Sunday I went to the all-day conference entitled “We Believe in Israel” which attracted over 1000 delegates including some from Radlett who also presented.
View From Netanya
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