Author: Glen Berd

Sunday 22nd May at 2.30pm - Make a date ... Join us for ..... Luxury Afternoon Tea and The Marx Bros brought to life by Raymond White, the Chairman of the Marx Bros Society. Donation is £7.50 per person payable at the door. However, we strongly request you register to attend, for our catering purposes.    (Thank you !) ...

A Century Since Lytham & St Anne’s Came Together It was the 100th anniversary of the former official union of the towns Lytham and St Anne’s into one single council area and it was marked with two special ceremonies.  The establishment of the Borough of Lytham St.Anne’s came into effect by an Act of Parliament on 1st May 1922.  However, this was to end in 1974 when both towns regained their own identity as part of the Fylde Borough. However, Lytham St.Anne’s lives on not only by Royal Mail but also in the marketing of our area as a great tourist destination. Meanwhile, St.Anne’s now has its own Town Council. Invited guests to the celebration included Fylde MP Mark Menzies, current and former Fylde and St Anne’s Town Councillors along with civic society members from both towns.  After the proclamation cries, the guests attended a reception in Fylde’s Town Hall – previously the home of Lytham St Anne’s Council – to hear a...

Israeli chess prodigy wins international under-9s championship The victory in Greece is the latest in a number of impressive achievements in Noam Sasson's young chess career. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Israeli chess prodigy Noam Sasson in Greece (photo credit: CHESS4ALL) Eight-year-old Israeli student Noam Sasson won an international chess competition for children aged nine and under on Friday., held on the Greek island of Rhodes The Israeli chess prodigy earned his victory after a tense, nine-day battle with his Turkish counterpart for the top spot. The victory in Greece is the latest in a number of impressive achievements in Sasson's young chess career. Noam showed his potential when he won the Israeli chess championship for children aged 6 and under a number of years ago. Sasson also won an international chess championship held in southern England at only six years old. Sasson celebrated his championship win draped in the Israeli flag and cheered on by the hundreds of competitors and fans at the international event. Israeli chess prodigy Noam Sasson in Greece...

Correspondent Peter Beyfus with thoughts on the Russian Foreign Minister’s scurrilous comments. How far will Russia go to justify the unjustifiable? The claim the Ukraine is in need of de-Nazification, has been presented as the main reason why Russia invaded a sovereign nation, to cleanse it of a barbaric ideology. The fact President Zelensky is Jewish and is highly unlikely to head and support a Jew-hating philosophy does not seem to have made Putin and Lavrov query their thinking; but, of course, this has nothing to do with rationality, but everything to do with twisted reasoning to some how redeem blatant aggression.    This perverted logic has been given further impetus by Lavrov by asserting Hitler’s had a Jewish grandfather, a claim contested by respected historians of the Twentieth Century, and even if the German Führer had one grandparent who was Jewish, that does not make Hitler Halachically Jewish, so much for the poor education of Putin and his henchmen! Israel has rightly...

Anthony Hopkins’ bio-pic of ‘British Schindler’ seals his place in history Jewish News campaigned for Sir Nicholas Winton to get his own stamp. Now the Holocaust hero gets a posthumous movie By BRIGIT GRANT Jewish News   Holocaust hero the late Sir Nicholas Winton who will be portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins in the film One Life Almost 30 years after Steven Spielberg brought the story of German Industrialist Oskar Schindler and his rescue of Jews to the big screen, a new biopic about the ‘British Schindler’ Sir Nicholas Winton is soon to start shooting in Prague. Directed by Aisling Walsh, One Life will celebrate the commitment of stock broker and humanitarian Winton to help rescue 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. Known as the Kindertransport, it was Winton who arranged the children’s journey from Prague to Britain and then helped them find new homes. Never seeking public recognition, Winton’s efforts went largely unnoticed until he was reunited some 50 years later with some...

A Poem by Peter Beyfus The flame flickered but did not go out, An evil wind blew causing the light to dance, But the candle was not snuffed. It burned in the darkest recesses, Keeping alive hope of a brighter future. Generations died for a soulless ideology, The victims of which speak loud and clear, Cleave to life and continue our people’s destiny. Gal Gadot - Israeli filmstar Yom Hashoa. Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is my grandpa, Abraham Weiss, he was born as Adolf Weiss but changed his name after the war for obvious reasons. My grandpa was born in Czechoslovakia also known as the Czech Republic. His father was drafted into the army and never returned, and so his mother was left with 2 young boys, Abraham, My grandpa, and Benjamin. After a long journey on the train to Auschwitz, being squeezed together with an inhuman amount of people in a railroad car, he was separated for the last time from his mother and younger brother. In what is called “the selection”. He never...