Linda Frank, American Jewish author, launched her second detective book revolving around her fictional female sleuth, Lily Kovner, the Jewish Miss Marple.This thriller covers the 3 strands of Chinese Jews: the authentic Chinese Jews, Jews from Iraq who migrated to India and from there to China and the Russian Jews […]
We have recently lost our good friend and talented actor, Robert Rietti at the age of 92. The Telegraph have published an obituary, which we bring here in full.May you rest in peace Robert, you will always be in our hearts!***Actor known as ‘The Man of a Thousand Voices’ whose […]
Shalom Nitza,Warm greetings from Bhutan! I’ve arrived at my village and met the faculty at my school. Tomorrow school starts and I will meet the three classes I will be teaching English literature to. Very exciting! The country is incredibly beautiful and people are extremely friendly and very generous. I […]
The meeting was very uplifting and encouraging, Esther is just phenomenal, and the way God uses her to get His work done is truly remarkable and inspiring. I am an active member of Operation Exodus also, my section is completely behind the scenes in the ‘engine room’, I am one […]
In their charming new home in Hampstead, on the evening of 11 Feb 2015, Nitza & Robin Spiro played host to the remarkable Esther Lever, 82, who told the large audience the awe-inspiring story of her life over the past 30 years, devoted to helping Jews throughout the world, as […]
In my last blog I told you about my Yazidi background but this is only one part of my multicultural family, the Yazidis.My mother is from Armenia on which Noah’s Ark has landed according to Genesis 8:4 “In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark […]
My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,I am honoured to welcome you to the Polish Embassy on this special occasion. During this Holocaust Memorial Day concert we will hear Julian Dawes’s moving song-cycle ‘Songs of Ashes’ composed to the words of Jerzy Ficowski’s fifteen poems on the tragic subject of the Holocaust. […]
Dear Peter,It was lovely to meet you and your good wife on the occasion of the launch of your book – Loyal Sons and also to listen to your lecture which was most interesting.You are to be credited to having done the research and produced this excellent book so quickly.One […]
Some of the responses receivedThank you so much for organizing such a fascinating engaging and stimulating event.Hugh SykesThanks as ever for arranging a fantastic evening on Wednesday — it was extremely interesting to learn facts and figures about the Jews’ great loyalty to Germany despite the discrimination against them, and […]
A letter from Dr. Gideon Reuveni , director of Centre for German Jewish Studies , Sussex university who chaired the book launch of “Loyal Sons” by Peter Appelbaum at the Spiro Ark on January 21st 2015Dear Nitza,Many thanks for organising yesterday’s event. I enjoyed the evening very much, I thought […]