I grew up in Belfast, represent the Belfast Jewish community on the Board of Deputies and co chair the Northern Ireland Friends of Israel - www.nifi.org.uk. I live in London and work as a consultant to the Board of Deputies to support grassroots Israel advocacy in the UK. My comments here are my own.
"I can only respond to this with humor.
Comedian Don Rickles appeared as a guest on the Tonight Show about 40 years ago in the US, He told co-host Ed McMahon in a feigned angry voice, "Ed, yo(...)"StevenKalka
"Can you really be an Israeli and not be opinionated?! Really well put together article. Clearly Israel benefits enormously from its middle class - and stands to lose if such western orientated fami(...)"Belfast Steven Jaffe
Just over a century ago, the late actor, Harold Goldblatt (founder of the Ulster Group Theatre), turned out for the football team of the Belfast Jewish community. "Our teachers told us to lose all our games," he once told me, "because if we won, it could cause anti-Semitism".
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RE: A Belfast Blog: The fool on the Hill?
"I can only respond to this with humor. Comedian Don Rickles appeared as a guest on the Tonight Show about 40 years ago in the US, He told co-host Ed McMahon in a feigned angry voice, "Ed, yo(...)" StevenKalka
RE: An Israeli Summer
"Can you really be an Israeli and not be opinionated?! Really well put together article. Clearly Israel benefits enormously from its middle class - and stands to lose if such western orientated fami(...)" Belfast Steven Jaffe