News Briefs





Succot events with friends from around the world

by
Tishrei 20, 5770, 10/8/2009


Chabad Simchat Beit HaShoava at Avraham Avinu neighorhood
With Shlomo Katz (video below)

 

Erez Urieli, Director of Center Against Antisemitism in Norway
with Norwegian friends in Hebron

Jan Willem van der Hoven and the ICZC visit Hebron during Succot
(video below)



The Wilder Way

by David Wilder
Personal Reflections on Hebron, Eretz Yisrael, Friends, Family and anything else that comes to mind.
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David Wilder was born in New Jersey in the USA in 1954, and graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a BA in History and teacher certification in 1976. He spent 1974-75 in Jerusalem at the Hebrew University and returned to Israel upon graduation.

For over fifteen years David Wilder has worked with the Jewish Community of Hebron. He is the English spokesman for the community, granting newspaper, television and radio interviews internationally. He initiated the Hebron internet project, including email lists of over 15,000 subscribers who receive regular news and commentaries from Hebron in English and Hebrew. David is responsible and continues to update the Hebron web sites, portraying various facets of Hebron, utilizing text, audio, video and pictures. He conducts tours of Hebron's Jewish Community and occasionally travels abroad, speaking at Hebron functions.

David Wilder is married to Ora, a 'Sabra,' for 30 years. They lived in Kiryat Arba for 17 years and have resided at Beit Hadassah in Hebron for the past eleven years. They have seven children and many grandchildren.

Links to sites David recommends:
www.davidwilder.net
www.hebron.com (English)
www.hebron.org.il (Hebrew)
www.machpela.com
www.ohrshlomo.org (Hebrew)
www.ohrshalom.net (Hebrew)
www.womeningreen.org
www.zoa.org
(others to be added)