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June 9, 2013
11:10 pm

It’s camp Jim, but not as we know it.

Tis the season of summer camp meetings. Just the thought of camp takes me and my rose tinted spectacles back to the late 1970s – those......

November 29, 2012
9:14 pm

Ma’oz tzur yeshuati, the cat’s in the cupboard and you can’t catch me

It was one of those “What?? Already??” moments. Yet the signs had been there… the Christmas lights, the £5 boxes of Quality Street chocolates in the supermarket, but the......

October 9, 2012
6:43 pm

My year in Israel with FZY 1984-1985. Part Three – Kibbutz Ketura and Moshav Nir Yafe.

Our five months on the Machon came to an end and us six FZYniks had to bid farewell to all our lovely friends. The English folk were bound......

August 21, 2012
5:33 pm

Four Jews on holiday in Spain

It’s not easy being a parent. And it’s especially difficult being a parent of teenagers. You have to lower your expectations. A good day is one without an......

July 12, 2012
8:28 pm

My year in Israel with FZY, 1984-1985: Part Two

I was eighteen years old and two and a half thousand miles away from home in Kiryat Moriah, Jerusalem. The course was a prestigious one – Machon Le Madrichim......

June 24, 2012
4:48 pm

My year in Israel with FZY 1984-1985. Part One – before

It was September 1984. A Levels were done, Tina Turner was asking what love had to do with it and I was leaving my home and family to go......

June 3, 2012
2:41 pm

The oys of Yiddish

Ask a middle-aged British Jew if they know any Yiddish and they’ll say, “Well, yes, I picked some up as a child, as my parents always used to speak......

May 2, 2012
12:27 am

Hands Up Who Went To Habo

Hands up if you went to Habonim in the 70s. My hand is up. Hands up if your mum pronounced it HaBONim rather than HaboNIM. My hand is still......

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April 8, 2012
9:25 pm

My family and other Jews (on Pesach)

It’s quite good when you’re grown up and have your own house. As long as your partner’s not too fussy, you can make it up as you go along.......

March 24, 2012
8:11 pm

Motherly ramblings with a very tenuous link to Pesach

The day didn’t get off to the best of starts. There was a misunderstanding about the appropriateness of the length of my daughter’s shorts. (She is nearly 15, need......

March 13, 2012
2:24 pm

Manishtana ha 8 days hazeh

You gotta love Jews, but you’ve especially gotta love Jews on festivals – and Pesach just takes the biscuit (albeit a dry one.) I pride myself on being a traditional......