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Gabriel Sapir

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Dec 19, 2025, 5:53 PM

Marat Machpela - Chevron

Day 6 · Chanukah 2025 Lighting six candles tonight stands for, in my view: Abraham & SarahYitzchak & RivkaYaacov & Leah “Gabriel,” you might ask, “have you forgotten Rachel, the wife of Yaacov?” God forbid. I haven’t. And yet, at Ma’arat HaMachpela, it is...

Dec 18, 2025, 4:14 PM

Kissing Yemenite Lips in TLV…Jewish Lips

Day 4 – Chanukah 2025 Kislev 28, 5786 December 17, 2025. 18:00 "Kissing Yemenite Lips in TLV: Jewish lips" A tired distinction is often drawn between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. You know the stereotypes. I won’t rehearse them. Instead, let me ask a...

Dec 17, 2025, 2:50 PM

A Brit Milah and a Very Special Holocaust Survivor

Brit Milah: The moment I told Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau my son's name - after his own brother - Naftali zt'll

Day 3 – Chanukah 2025 תשפ״ו כ"ז בכסלו , Kislev 27, 5786 December 16, 2025. 15:00 My son was born on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. The Jewish New Year. Of course he was. While this freckled kid was still baking...

Dec 16, 2025, 4:09 PM

“If Judaism mattered to you, why not in Israel?”

Rachel Hodaya, bad-accent-Nebach Abba, and Ophir Naftali

Day 2 – Chanukah 2025 – תשפ״ו כ"ו בכסלו , Kislev 26, 5786 December 16, 2025. 15:30 My Crazy Israeli Kids Laugh at my Hebrew Accent, They Echo Sarah's laughter heard in eternity....- and I love it! (with just an added touch...

Nov 10, 2020, 11:47 AM

Sarah’s legacy has been passed on to her children

***This article is dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (HaRav Ya’akov Zvi ben David Arieh zt’’l), former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, our beloved teacher, who passed away Saturday 7th November...

May 12, 2020, 12:23 AM

In Memoriam: Bobby Hill זיכרונו לברכה

I met Bobby sometime in 2018. At that point, I had moved to London and was learning under his auspices, practically every other day, Sunday to Friday. During 8 months together we covered a range of topics: Shabbat, Kashrut,...

Apr 19, 2020, 11:47 PM

Time to come home: The Aliyah wave after Covid-19

Whether in Egypt, Persia, the Americas, Europe, or Far East, we have thrived speaking English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Afrikaans, whether working in Law, Medicine, Architecture, Engineering, Literature, Arts and Culture, and across the centuries! The breadth of...

Mar 17, 2020, 10:01 PM

Covid-19: An open letter to the UK Prime Minister

17 March 2020 Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Dear Sir, In unprecedented times as these, let me start this communication by wishing you strength and wisdom in dealing with the associated events...

Mar 15, 2020, 8:04 PM

Covid-19: Three (urgent) needs you can help with.

This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like. Credit: NIAID-RML / CC BY 2.0 // NIAID - https://www.flickr.com/photos/niaid/49534865371/

The Need to Avert a Public Health Disaster Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause disease ranging from the common cold to more severe respiratory diseases. This family of virus includes the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome...

Mar 10, 2020, 10:02 AM

Purim: My wife, aliyah and our Jerusalem of gold!

It is early in the morning. 3:30 AM, just over an hour to the start of Ta'anit Esther. I am unusually awake and decide to go to our living room, where I'd left my mobile phone the night before,...

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Dr Gabriel Sapir is a medical doctor and a qualified lawyer. "A tasty cholent of Israel, UK and Brazil cultures" A proud Israeli. A proud Jew.

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