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Jun 5, 2026, 10:38 AM
The Pink Sari (le Sari Rose) by Javier Moro
Reading a book about India in French which has been translated from the Spanish original seems a bit crazy. However, when I picked this book up from the shelf in our local pensioners’ club I hadn’t realized what a...
May 29, 2026, 5:44 PM
Books and Stuff
Last week, having missed the bus from Tel Aviv to Mevasseret, I found myself unexpectedly on the train. My natural instinct on being in that situation is to read a book, but I didn’t have one with me. I...
May 17, 2026, 1:39 PM
An Echo from the Past
One day a message appeared on my screen. It came from someone I had never met or known and asked about my translation of articles by Verdina Shlonsky. As I read the message the memory of the composer, Verdina Shlonsky,...
May 10, 2026, 11:27 AM
A Concert Full of Fun
Concerts of classical music are usually fairly serious affairs. One wears appropriate clothing, behaves in a suitable manner and listens to the music played by the orchestra or chamber ensemble with attention and interest. But the concert of the Jerusalem...
May 1, 2026, 2:50 PM
England, my England
The country I grew up in 70 years ago no longer exists. Post-war England was a land where people were emerging from a period of hardship and austerity. There was a sense of solidarity within and between different groups, whether...
Apr 23, 2026, 12:47 PM
Independence Day 2026
There was a time when I celebrated Israel’s Independence Day with unalloyed pleasure, rejoicing in the knowledge that we finally had our own country, where all Jews can find sanctuary and make their home. Coming after two thousand years...
Apr 16, 2026, 12:10 PM
The Debt to Pleasure
This extraordinary book by John Lanchester begins with a purported Preface by its purported author, who goes by the suspiciously apt name of Tarquin Winot, and which (the reader learns at a much later stage of the book) has...
Apr 12, 2026, 10:21 AM
Spin, Spin, Spin
What are we supposed to think? There’s a temporary ceasefire, the terms of which are still under discussion. And anyway, it’s only set to last for two weeks, and what happens after that? People in Israel are happy, thinking...
Apr 3, 2026, 1:39 PM
The Revenge of King Charles: A Novel of Royalty and Regicides
Considering myself something of a history buff, I was intrigued to see that a fellow-member of the IAWE (Israel Association of Writers in English) has written a historical novel about a period of English history of which I am...
Mar 26, 2026, 1:20 PM
Old-New Antisemitism
The arson attack on ambulances belonging to Hatzola, the Jewish first-aid association, in the car-park of a synagogue in Golders Green, the heartland of London’s Jewish community, sent a shiver down my spine (and, I presume, the spines of...
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