Shabbat Shalom, to all the readers of this website.

As an amateur in the realm of website editing, I have been rather amazed at what has happened this year.

Since the website started in 2022, the average weekly number of views has been in the region of 200, coming from about 120 people. This was the case till new year 2026. Since then our readership has expanded to 1,400 views per week.

Similarly, whereas 85% of the readers were from UK, 10% from USA and the balance from a few individual countries - now, there are over 1,000 from USA, 250 from Singapore, 200 from UK and Hong Kong 0ver 50. I enquired of my expert, as to whether this is possibly some criminal action and whether I should be curtailing things, but he did not think so. However if you are not in UK as you read this, I would love to hear from you.

This week saw the British Holocaust Memorial Day. The country joined in well, but there were some disturbing signs. The BBC not paying tribute to the fact that the first 6 million of the Holocausts, was the Nazi persecution of the Jews.

Similarly, the schools had been making a point of teaching their pupils about the significance of the day. This has dropped off this year by 60%! This is a very bad sign. It is suggestive that the academic world since the October 7th attack, has sided with anti-Israel, which they have made anti-Jewish. Tis growth of anti-Semitism is very worrying indeed to the Jewish fraternity. It is also happening in other countries.

Thank you to Jack Kaye for his 2 contributions which report on Brighton and Hove Albion's last two matches against Bournemouth which they drew and Fulham which they lost.

Meanwhile Rachelle has brought back loads of my boarding school memories when she published her recipe for Bubble and Squeak.

In case you cannot find the articles - try the following:-

Carolyne Davis is in News from Israel which comes under the heading of Jewish Life and Israel.
Barbra Paskin's Letter from Hollywood is first under the Entertainment section.
Rachelle's Recipes are in the same section.
Jack Kaye's Albion Gazettes are under Sport.
This week's Parsha comes under the heading of Religious Community

I hope you have a great Shabbos and an enjoyable week to follow

Keep warm.