Sheldon Paul Stone, at The Blogs

Jan 14, 2025, 6:45 PM

The Great Chanukah Polemic of 1891– Relevant Today?

Hayyim Zelig Slonimski aged seventy-five. From The Jewish Encyclopedia, New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1912.

If, as the polemic suggests, the Rabbis invented the miracle of the oil lasting 8 days, was this to avoid glorifying military might and tell a cautionary tale against internal division and misuse of Jewish power? Criticism from kids...

May 24, 2024, 6:29 PM

Omer, Rosh Chodesh and The Dog Days of War

The dualities of both illuminate our complex emotions as this war drags on Rarely have words from the ancient Tehilim (Psalms) said at Rosh Chodesh (New Moon) sounded as if I’d written them today, to express my confused feelings in...

Feb 2, 2024, 6:48 PM

Genocide, Jim, but not as we know it…

Image credit: Publicity photo of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner as Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk from the television program Star Trek. NBC Television. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The 'disproportionality' of the ICJ ruling brought home to me, as an activist against the Uyghurs' very real Genocide, how much all of us, including Gazans, need fair application of international law A Manchurian, who supports Israel because “I know...

Jan 11, 2024, 10:37 PM

The Manchurian Man and Hamas

Gaza: Where my Uyghur and Jewish worlds collide He came towards us in Parliament Square at a Bring Them Home rally. I shook his hand. “Thanks for coming. Are you from Thailand, supporting the Thai hostages?” “From Manchuria, he said, “ Supporting Israel....

Mar 7, 2023, 12:04 AM

‘Worst Man in the World’ – an early Purim spiel

Author speaking at the rally against the Governor of Uyghur region's visit

We Jews may be supporting Uyghurs in their struggle against loss of all human rights in their ancestral homeland, but Uyghurs show us all how to exercise restraint and responsibility, instead of anger and aggression. Purim came early for me,...

Feb 3, 2023, 6:46 PM

Who am I? What do I say? Will anyone listen?

‘Anyone who can possibly protest the conduct of his household, his town or even the whole world, and does not, is punished for that conduct’ Shabbat 54a I don’t like to criticize Israel, for I don’t walk the streets, risking random stabbing,...

Oct 9, 2022, 6:04 AM

Taking Liberties

“I’ll have that one,” I said, pointing to the model in the window. I paid by card. She reached under her desk, then plonked a box on top. I gazed at the stamp on the box. “I am sorry, but I just can’t...

Aug 3, 2022, 6:41 PM

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A stroke doctor who had a stroke in front of a stroke patient

Human brain with highlighted inferior frontal gyrus, computer illustration. It is a part of the prefrontal cortex and the location of Broca's area, which is involved in language processing and speech production. (Getty images)

I’m irritated by the stuff I now have to do, like exercise and sleep, in the hope of preventing a much worse stroke. I miss alcohol. But I'm choosing life

Jul 15, 2022, 6:03 PM

A 5-year-old girl on Urumqui Day

Girl her drawing she made for the protest
see instagram uyghurs_uk UK Uyghur Association https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfq09q8MPAB/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

“Allah, can you please help us to get away China from us.” She was only little. I thought the picture she had drawn was the sky. It was, however, the symbol of the ancestral homeland she’d never seen. As the peer, Lord David...

Jan 17, 2022, 8:16 AM

From the River Lee, Tottenham to the Nanhu Lake, Urumqi…

Blue-Green Algae in Lake Nahnu. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

That Exodus from Egypt still inspires..so here are 10 plagues for China! I was born in Tottenham. If I were to romanticise it, I would say ‘Tottenham by the banks of the Lee!” We lived a short walk from the River Lee....

About Me

Sheldon is a 67 year old, London-born, Meikal Orthodox retired Teaching Hospital Consultant Physician for Older People and Stroke. His research in infection control and behavioural science helped introduce bed-side alcohol hand-rub. Now an Advisor to World Uyghur Congress, London Office for STOPUYGHURGENOCIDE campaign. Wife consultant physician. Two daughters, one son. University or graduated. One cat. Spurs season ticket holder (except shabbat!). Aliyah one day (PG!).

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