July 2014

  • Ein Besuch bei Sheila Vogel-Coupe. 85 in London.  Sie ist seit einigen Jahren Escort Dame   A visit at Sheila Vogel-Coupe, 85, and since a few years an escort   LINK http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/article/view/id/19844    

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  • Londons hungrigster Rabbiner |London’s most hungry Rabbi  (Jüdische Allgemeine) Ein Rabbiner in London fastet für einen Monat weil eine Frau in seiner Synagoge in Panik geriet, als sie eine islamische Frau in der Synagoge erblickte.   My report on a rabbi who decides to fast for one month after a fellow Jewish congregant panics seeing…

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  • War is not a football game, even shortly after the Brazilian World Cup It is not for you to choose one team or another, and incite violence in one or the other direction. The only job you have, if you are not a Palestinian or Israeli, or have family there or even if you are…

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  • I once worked for a Palestinian – Jewish peace village and peace initiative  (Oasis of Peace / British Friends of Neve Shalom ~ Wahat al Salam) and had also studied the conflict at university. So quite a few were interested in my thoughts on the escalation of the conflict.   My main forum of discussion…

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  • When the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgement on the claim of breach of human rights against a Muslim woman in France, affected by the government ban on the wearing of the Niqab, was released, I felt bewildered.  Somehow the court managed to abrogate her claims of human rights violations and argued instead, that…

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  • A rare English poem of mine, regarding my area of Kings Cross,  has just been mentioned in a piece on regeneration written on www.voist.co.uk by Alex Pielak, entitled “How do you solve a problem like gentrification?“ Pielak writes: “…Ross’ project Wiki Kings Cross aimed to allow locals to add their stories, … about Kings Cross…

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