In January 2015 the Qatar-owned satellite channel al-Jazeera broadcast a programme about Jews in Morocco. “Jews first began to settle in Morocco over 2, 000 years ago,” said the presenter.”… and for centuries they and Muslims have happily co-existed there.” Now the English version of a compilation of commented original […]
FEEDBACK ON THE PREPARATORY COURSE ON THE MAJOR HIGH HOLIDAY PRAYERS, (ORGANISED BY SPIRO ARK FOR CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE)
1) “Thank you very much for this uplifting session where i have learned so much.As I am converting and have tried a few classes (Hebrew and Talmud) your session has been the best of all. You have mixed knowledge and poetic emotions brilliantly and all in the contrast defined in […]
VERY SUCCESSFUL BOOK LAUNCH
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 […]
ROBERT RIETTI, VOICEOVER ACTOR – OBITUARY
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 […]
GREETINGS FROM BHUTAN – OUR STUDENT SENDS HIS REGARDS!
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 […]
REVIEWS AND IMPRESSIONS OF ISRAEL, WHO CARES? WE DO!
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-SPIRO-ING TALK – REVIEW OF ESTHER LEVER’S ISRAEL, WHO CARES? WE DO!
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 […]
JEWS IN ARMENIA
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 […]
“SONGS OF ASHES” – THE SPEECH OF THE AMBASSADOR OF POLAND, HC WITOLD SOBKOW
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. […]
A LETTER OF APPRECIATION BY PETER NATT – THE GRANDSON OF HUGO NATT, A GERMAN JEWISH PHYSICIAN FROM WWI
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 […]