Educational authorities in Dubai have promised to withdraw a school book which contains an extremely offensive picture: two Jewish children. Education authorities here have promised to review a book taught in an international private school that features a photograph of two Jewish children sporting plaited hair and yarmulke. Dr Obaid Butti Al Mohiri, the [...]
Last night I attended a wedding in Jerusalem. The groom, an Australian friend of mine who I met here in Israel, married an American, giving the wedding an American-Australian flavor (actually, the Australian flavor was more pronounced, especially with the groom donning an Australian Rules Football guernsey and guests kicking around a football). This is [...]
Israel 1 France 1 That’s what I’m talking about. I did not see the game – I was at a wedding – but well done to the boys! And I am even reading that Israel outplayed the French and should have won. But I am calling the glass “half full”, since the [...]
