LONDON, May 28, 2021 Shalom friends!
I am writing while on my last official day of quarantine (hopefully) from my mother’s flat in London. I feel so grateful finally to be here after so much time and distance; to be with family and to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of the son of good friends this Shabbat. So far, I have not stepped foot outside this building!
Every Friday morning, my mother gets her weekly copy of The Jewish Chronicle, delivered along with The Times and I have been reading it with considerable alarm. Almost every story is one that relates to the sharp and shocking increase in incidents of anti-Semitism since the awful escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza.