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[Pinched from Andrea Samuels] Just read this hilarious post on Twitter by Matthew Feinberg (@thewebbie).   Too good not to share… Jewish Middle Aged Dating Ah, being a single middle-aged Jewish man and trying to understand Jewish women, now that's a tale as old as The Torah. So there I am, minding my own business, trying to navigate this minefield called dating. I swear, trying to understand a Jewish woman is like trying to read the Talmud without a commentary. You think you get it, but then she hits you with something and you’re back to square one, like a dreidel that never lands on the side you want. Take my mother, for instance. She says, "Why don't you move to New York City or Boca to meet a nice Jewish girl?" I say, "Ma, I do meet them! But then I meet them, and suddenly I'm trapped in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm." One date I went on, she spent the entire time talking about...

The Future May Not Be Rosy, But Red By Peter Beyfus Sir Keir Starmer’s landslide victory on the 5th of July may have been greeted by many as welcome news, but by others with a sense of trepidation. The turnout in the British 2024 General Election was not anything to be complacent about: just 60% of the electorate bothered to cast their votes; and Labour enjoyed a meagre 34% of the votes but enjoyed a handsome reward of 412 seats. One may take issue with the first past the post system of electing governments, levelling the charge it does not represent a true democracy, but there is little prospect of it changing to PR, when both main parties favour the current method of election that guarantees success for one or the other. But more important than debates about whether first past the post or PR is the fairer system, what does a Labour Government hold for the Jewish community of Britain? The short...

From: "Tony Frais (Tiscali)" <afrais@tiscali.co.uk> Date: 16 June 2024 at 19:21:42 BST To: office@shulbythesea.co.uk Subject: THANKS FOR THE CLOTHING FOR DISPLACED FAMILIES Reply-To: "Tony Frais (Tiscali)" <afrais@tiscali.co.uk>  Dear Congregation, I am writing in awe and amazement at the generous Chessed from your Shool Community in sending clothes for the Displaced Families in Israel. Our hearts break at the suffering there. I will endeavour to despatch the men's , women's  and children's clothing through a network of like-minded travellers as soon as is possible. I call this the camel train. I will begin with myself  as I am travelling to Heathrow for my El Al flight tomorrow to Eretz. From the bottom of my heart toda raba Am Yisrael Hi I visited your beautiful  Shool last summer Helen Frais ...

A breath-taking speech by Miriam Novak at the UN General Assembly. Don't miss a word! For two thousand years we have lived among you, offering you our knowledge, discoveries and inventions. At the UN Special General Assembly in New York, held at the request of the leaders of the European Union and the New Arab Bloc, the representative of Israel, Miriam Novak, spoke. Standing at the podium, in front of the green marble wall of the main UN hall, Miriam Novak said into the microphone: "Ladies and gentlemen! As you know, eighty years ago, Europe, led by Germany, carried out an ethnic purge: it exterminated almost all the Jews who lived there. French, Belgians, Dutch, Norwegians, Hungarians, Slovaks, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians – all helped the fascists. You killed at least six million Jews, including new-born babies. Each of them could have given the world children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, so you can multiply the number of killed by four or five... And now, when we are...