Rod Kersh

Person-centred physician

Apply for a Blog

Apr 21, 2025, 8:47 AM

Pessach, gravestones and what matters to you

Edinburgh Castle. Photo by Rod Kersh, April 2025.

Yesterday*, I travelled by train, to Edinburgh. East Coast Mainline. Doncaster to Waverley. It was the same journey featured in the novel When Will There Be Good News? By Kate Atkinson Which my daughter is studying for A-Level English. In the story, There is a fatal crash At Musselburgh A town on the...

Apr 16, 2025, 10:27 PM

A week in The Land of Israel, part 3

Friendly neighbourhood Ibex, Midreshet Sde Boker, March 2025, photo by Rod Kersh

It was only a week, yet it felt longer Lots condensed into Seven days of doing. Last Sunday, I left you at Nova. I recently learned that more people have visited the site of the massacre than any other in Israel. More than the Western...

Apr 15, 2025, 8:39 PM

My visit to Israel, March 2025, Part 2

The perpetual moment. Photo screenshot by Rod Kersh, March 25

Yesterday I started with fragments as that is both how my memory works and the experience of my visit like the dust motes in the novel I am reading (My Russian Grandmother and her American Vacuum Cleaner/Meir Shalev). I left you with mention of the viper although before...

Apr 14, 2025, 11:07 PM

A disorderly Seder

This is the first day of Passover.* Pesach. A commemoration of the Israelite escape from Egypt, so named, because the Angel of Death passed-over the houses of the Jews and took the lives of the first-born Egyptians. Killed the oldest. Centuries...

Apr 5, 2025, 12:14 AM

A week in the Land of Israel, Part 4

Purim in Jerusalem, photo by Rod Kersh 2025

I am writing this at an unusual time* – it is almost mid-day and my habit is to write first thing in the morning, straight from bed, before anything else has crowded my thoughts. I was once told that writing...

Mar 29, 2025, 9:57 PM

My visit to Israel, March 2025, Part one.

Springtime in Ra'anana.
March 2025, Photo Rod Kersh

It began with a cancelled flight. My trip to Israel Via Frankfurt Required a re-route given a late announced strike In German airports. This was the reason I travelled from Manchester to Budapest. And then to Tel Aviv. This was my first visit to Israel since 10/7, Not that I hadn’t wanted...

Feb 1, 2025, 2:50 PM

I sat next to the guy with the Kaffiyeh

Photo by Rod Kersh using Microsoft 365 Co-pilot

I doubt you will have seen them yet. The publicity shots from Sheffield Council’s Holocaust Memorial Day. There was a photographer, snapping. I wondered why. I attended on Monday with my daughter. You can read last years’ experience here. And, how was that night different? We...

Jan 25, 2025, 10:42 PM

Linguistic recollection device on Ostrovski Street

Image generated by Rod Kersh using M365 CoPilot

Along from the wall where Jake was pushed and broke his arm sometime around 1986 was when I first spoke Hebrew. I was standing with a group of friends in front of a pet shop. I can’t remember whether there were...

May 29, 2024, 12:26 PM

I am not good with certain details in life, for example, remembering when an event took place or what I did previously, maybe a holiday, trip, or a day in the past. Some things, I have whole, complete recollection viz....

May 28, 2024, 1:06 PM

It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

Yesterday I listened to a podcast with the Palestinian politician Samer Sinijlawi. It was a fascinating discussion, with Sinijlawi doing most of the talking. Born in Jerusalem, he attended a Christian-Arab school before being caught-up in the first Intifada and arrested...

Load more

About Me

Dr Rod Kersh is a Consultant Physician working in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. He blogs at www.almondemotion.com

Contact Me