Israeli Sherut Leumi girls volunteer at Chazon Yeshayahu Soup Kitchen WhenI was in a posh English Public School (Rugby School – where the game wasinvented by renegade soccer player William Webb Ellis in 1823), we had a choiceof enlisting in Army Corp (a sort of militarised scouts) and “grannybashing”. Read More »

“Who Moved My Cheese” was a great title of a book which addressed appropriate responses to changing circumstances. The ‘star’ mouse character keeps going back to the same place, even though there’s now no cheese there. The book’s subtitle is: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life. Read More »

By Guest Writer Sam Sokol,  Kind Permission of The Five Towns Jewish Weekly When Israel’s Channel 2 ran its exposé on the attack on eight-year-old Naama Margolese, who was innocently making her way to school and suffered the degradations of a group Read More »

Natalia Mashiach, 27, was reportedly hanging posters in Ramat Beit Shemesh , promoting a lottery business, when she was accosted, and then attacked by a group of local residents; her vehicle was also attacked, smashing the windows and puncturing the tyres, and her attackers then poured bleach on her and the vehicle. Read More »

With the fight looming over the slated demolition of Migron, a not-yet-approved village in Shomron, here is a neat cartoon-like presentation of the history: Read More »

I don’t think this applies to me , as I can spend seconds at a time away from my email and internet.You too? Read More »

“TagMechir” (literally: Price Tag) is a tactic allegedly used by some extreme right wingers, wherebyany actions taken by the Government, Army or Police against Jewish settlements,village and towns in Yehuda & Shomron are met with retaliatory actions. Read More »

Dr David  Pelcovitz , renowned psychologist,  author, and inspirational  speaker, will be speaking in Beit Shemesh, and Rabbi Yakov Horowitz  will  be joining us by Video-Link, on this Thursday 19th January, 2012, commencing at  8pm, at the RBS Matnas on Nahal Dolev. Read More »

Thelatest episode in the saga of spin-off stories emanating from the Beit ShemeshOrot Banot ‘spitting’ video, is the Machon Puah fracas. MachonPuah is a fertility research center and clinic, established by the NationalReligious community. Read More »

  Rabbi Yaacov Haber Ihad the privilege of attending a “Town Hall Meeting” arranged by Rabbi YaacovHaber last week, at his Kehilas Shivtei Yeshurun (KSY) shul in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Therav introduced the event by observing that there had been a huge Chilul Hashemaround the world, centered on the recent events in Beit Shemesh. Read More »

The newspapers/news-sites, magazines, blogs around the world are (quite rightly) not looking kindly on the protests and nefarious misdemeanors in Bet Shemesh.  Lest things get too depressing for we residents of Beit Shemesh I offer this locally produced simcha video. It’s not Sukkot, but we need the fun and joy right now. Read More »

“Sixof the Best” was the expression wryly used to describe the formalpunishment of being beaten on the buttocks six times with the headmaster’swooden cane. Read More »

Even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has put up a trial balloon this week, proposing that Bet Shemesh be divided.This is a new map showing Bet Shemesh, divided at the mid-point… between Men and Women. Read More »

This Channel Two News story is about two Ramat Beit Shemesh families, and the treatment they suffered at the hands of ultra-orthodox extremists.  The first item focuses on the Kadosh family, consisting of a single mum and five kids. Three of these kids are severely disabled by a degenerative genetic disease. Read More »

While the entire world is hearing about the “darker” side of Bet Shemesh we would like to tell remind you about a sparkling gem in the midst of our city.Lema’an Achai. Smart Chesed. For over 11 years Lema’an Achai has been the voice of reason and sanity providing the tools to build better and brighter futures. Read More »

Humour, well used, is the sharpest weapon. Read More »

Iwas contacted yesterday to ask if I would be willing to participate in a BBC panel of Beit Shemesh residents, to discuss the situation at Orot Banot. Whenthe Israel Defence Forces undertake operations against terror groups, Israel’scritics throw the word “disproportionate” into their (knee-jerk) condemnations. Read More »

I rediscovered this gem of Rowan Atkinson.As a graduate of two English boarding schools, I can relate… Read More »

Thebattle since the start of this school year , for Orot Banot School, has reached national status. 8year old American olah, Naama Margolis, from Beit Shemesh, has become a nationalicon, due to a Channel Two News report aired this Saturday night. Naamaexplains how scared she is to travel the 300 metres from her home to school. Read More »

Theincursion Monday night by dozens of ‘settler’ youth into the Ephraim Army Base in Samaria has received severe condemnationacross the political spectrum. Inthe course of the incursion, it has been reported that IDF vehicles were vandalized;tyres were set on fire; subsequently base commander, Col. Read More »