Author: jednovick
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The Whole Mechula is Gesheft – where it started
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The summer of 2018. It’s the hottest summer since before the dawn of time. Football thought about coming home, but had a look at the state England was in and thought better of it. (That’s someone else’s gag, but we live in a sharing society). The Tories are in disarray, biting…
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Always sleep with a suitcase under the bed
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You know the old Jewish saying: Always sleep with a suitcase under the bed, because you never know when the knock’s going to come. That was a joke. Probably still is. Probably. That’s the bit that’s changed. The summer of 2018. It’s the hottest summer since before the dawn of time. Football…
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The Train
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So I’ve been talking for how many months about traveling across the States by train and how I love traveling by train and how train travel is the future and… and today is a train day. The first train day, going from Atlanta to New Orleans. On the train at…
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Atlanta
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All that planning. It made much more sense to go somewhere, hang out, stay till it feels right to leave and then leave. Don’t make plans. Don’t be tied to a schedule. The whole point of being by yourself is to be selfish about the “What do I fancy doing…
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Diary – Day One
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“Standby for action. We are about to launch… Stingray. Anything can happen in the next half hour” How many times do you get an opportunity like this? The time – and thank you to my employers for that – the money, which came through two unexpected PPI repayments. Yeah, I…
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How did we get here?
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I grew up in east London, in a working class Labour family. The Daily Mirror was the family newspaper. The family fought in Cable Street. So why now do I fear The Labour Party? Why do I bristle when I hear reports about Israel? Why do I get angry about…
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make
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So I’m back in England, it’s grey and drizzly. I’ve been back a few days and so far Lou has left for a new life in Falmouth, I’ve been trying to catch up on the work stuff – just the 4535 e-mails I’ve missed by going away, and I’ve got…
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Day 16
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The last day. It’s been a bit of a ride, but there was only one place to go on the last day. Yad Vashem is an extraordinary place. It doesn’t matter how many people are there, it feels empty and silent. Actually, that’s not strictly true. I was in the…
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But before that… Jews complaining again
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Most of my life has been on the Left of the political spectrum. Like most people I know, I was always more devoted to talking about doing rather than doing. Ideas, I had. Lots of ideas. And they all came with a glass of something. Action, not so much. I…