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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 had the pleasure of visiting Rabbi Dee in Efrat this week, and received a totally new perspective on what is going on in the area generally referred to as