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Bobs Your Uncle PodcastThe results are in: Elections and Chiefs and Passover?Season 7, episode 2 is about results and especially not waiting for the results. Sometimes we get it wrong when we stop watching too soon, or when jet lag hits us full on. Three stories that might make you smile. At least I hope so.Historical marker of the week includes Akihito in Japan, the invention of the leotard and the closing of Ellis Island. Some of the manuscript is on my blog: https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-results-are-in-or-are-they.html Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your ma...2024-11-1219 minBobs Your Uncle PodcastSeason Seven Episode 1: Do-Overs and gaffes, do those work in real life?Today Bob takes us on an 18-minute journey in the land of do-overs, thinking about what a gaffe is, and how to make things right, when we do wrong. Quoting Professor Malouff of UNE in Australia and Rabbi Brad Hirschfield of the US, some good insights into this notion of repair. The historical marker of the week includes the Black Death in London, the Duke of Brabant and the Sistine Chapel.Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right he...2024-11-0117 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastSukkot Day 5: Recorded in 5783 in SydneyBob shares from "in the sukkah' about Amos 9 and the fallen booth of David, about the Council in Jerusaalem and Gentiles keeping circumcision, and the role of the nations in Zechariah chapter 14, plus a reading and comments from Ecclesiastes chapter 5. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.comLink to https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078996765315 on Facebook. Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and a...2024-10-2020 minBobs Your Uncle PodcastIdentity... what do you identify as?In this episode, Bob takes us on a journey of other people's journeys related to how they identify and asks "What is your identity?" Maybe the Bible can help us find our own if that's possible.Historical marker of the week includes the guillotine death sentence in France, the invention of the sewing machine, the first black African Olympic gold medal, and more!Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo...2024-09-1118 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastBob Mendelsohn speaking about Pure Evil... or at least 'purity'What is purity and how shall a person get hold of that anyway?Season 5 begins now, and will go through the end of the calendar year 2024.Historical marker of the week includes invasions and citizenships and voting rights as well as the Jewish mother of the Salvation Army!Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.comLink to https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078996765315...2024-07-2316 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastDr Gerry Smith, how to get along with 'the other'Gerry is a lecturer in sociology and in the school of religion at University of Sydney and also at University of Tasmania. She has a lot to say and Bob also shares his views about text-based religion. It's Passover week; the Bible verse is a hit. This episode is actually part 2 of 2, concluding the episode we began last week.Historical markers of the week include Hank Aaron, William Shakespeare and Sirhan B Sirhan, a Palestinian assassin who killed Bobby Kennedy in 1968 and continues in a life sentence in a California jail. To read the article t...2024-04-2218 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastDr Gerry Smith, lecturer in sociology at University of Sydney on the interfaith movementGerry Smith is originally from Sydney and spends half the year lecturing there and in Hobart, Tasmania on religion, on religious movements, and especially with a bent on the sociology of religion. She has a lot to say about young people and inclusion, about key challenges to those involved in interfaith activity (or non activity), and this is only part 1 of 2 parts in this podcast series. Historical marker of the week includes Pope Julius II, the San Francisco earthquake, and the midnight ride of Paul Revere. By the way, Passover is this Monday evening. Have a blessed we...2024-04-1918 minBobs Your Uncle PodcastResurrection... what does that mean? With Bob MendelsohnThe concept did not originate in the Christian world, it's Jewish! The prophets of Elijah and Elisha raised people from the dead, and it's recorded in our Holy Scriptures. So it's not a surprise that the Jewish believers in Yeshua also saw that as part of our proper theological view. Certainly the Orthodox Jewish world today still holds to that thought. But what about Yeshua, and Easter... is that believable? Or is that simply sci-fi?Historical marker of the week includes the Malvinas, Woodrow Wilson and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Support the showTha...2024-04-0118 minBobs Your Uncle PodcastSwoon theory, Jewish hoax and a resurrectionBob speaks in answering two questions, one from a Jewish doctor over coffee and the other from a Christian man about three days and three nights and the apparent contradiction in the Word. How to solve those?Historical marker includes the UN taking over Gaza, Marcus Aurelius and Bloody Sunday.Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.comLink to https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078996765315 on...2024-03-0718 minBobs Your Uncle PodcastIs not remembering a sin? Really? What is the point of recall?In this episode, Bob speaks about the purpose of remembering AND some useful aids in gaining a good memory. Zooming in on his father's memory, and his yahrtzeit, Bob looks backwards so that he sees God's mercies. The historical markers of the week are all from the 20th century and include RUR, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela and the Ayatolla of Iran. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.com2024-02-1117 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastMorgan Lindsay from New Zealand on climate change, Israel and rugbyMorgan Lindsay lives in New Zealand. She is a trained geologist with a love of sport, music and dance, disaster relief, and her nieces and nephews. A great all-rounder, you will enjoy spending 18 minutes with this lady. We met in Turkey and she and her partner Hayden loved the rocks and all-natural sites we saw throughout. She works as a Climate Risk and Geospatial Consultant at Tonkin + TaylorThe historical marker of the week includes another Kiwi named Hillary, milk in glass, and Amelia Earhart. Oh, and Hamilton, too.Support the show...2024-01-1118 minBobs Your Uncle PodcastWar in Israel. 5th episode of 5 includes History. Bob's personal viewsA longing for peace is never wrong. As Hanukkah is upon us tomorrow, and Christmas just around the corner, let's hope for real peace in the Holy Land. Here are Bob's personal views. They are not the views of an organization or institution. They are personal.And some historical markers for 6 December includes Donald Trump and Hugo Chavez.Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.comLink to...2023-12-0722 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastWar in Israel v Hamas. #4 of 5. Malik Dixon of AustraliaMalik grew up in Carolina in the US and spent time studying history and social science, even living in the Middle East. His perspective on the war today is pro-Palestinian, as he favours the plight of the underdogs. His Instagram is theloniousleek. The Historical marker includes Nicholas II and the end of constitutional monarchy, The Soviets detonating Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean; a fourteenth-century battle with Christians and Muslims and the War of the Worlds broadcast. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod wi...2023-10-2923 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastWar in Israel v Hamas. #3 of 5 with Paul Cohen, Messianic JewPaul Cohen was born in the Netherlands and lived in Israel before moving to Australia years ago. He and his wife (whom he met in Israel) are very involved in the subject of Jews and Jesus and Israel. His perspectives include a desire for peace and sitting down to honestly talk about issues. His irenic nature unfolds clearly in this 3rd of 5 episodes on the subject of the Israel/ Hamas war. The historical marker includes the establishment of the Republic of Turkey (now Turkeye) by Ataturk, the famous Black Tuesday in the US, and the invasion by Is...2023-10-2824 minBobs Your Uncle PodcastWar in Israel v Hamas. Episode #2 of 5! With Abusaleh, a Lebanese Muslim Sunni. Surprises!My friend, who goes by Abusaleh, lives in Sydney's west and has some surprising views on Hamas and Palestine, on Israel and colonization. How would he fix the troubles in the Middle East? Stay tuned!The historical marker includes the Statue of LIberty, Harvard, and the Gateway Arch.Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.comLink to https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078996765315 on Facebook. ...2023-10-2724 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastWar in Israel v Hamas... 1 of 5. A Jewish perspectiveToday begins a week-long, 5-part series on the Israel-Hamas war. Who is right? What is right? How do we handle the "God" talk? Meet Miranda Weiss, originally from the US near Washington DC, now living near Brisbane in Australia with her husband and four children. She became an Israeli, and fought in the IDF. She brings us insider information about how Israelis think, especially about war. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- b...2023-10-2625 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastDr Deborah Fuller, University of Washington, Virology and vaccines. Whom do we trust? Part 2The 2nd part of the 2-part series with Deb Fuller, a master swimmer, a cyclist, and professor of virology at the Uni of Washington in the USA. Learn about this language learner and sensible scientist relating to us about viruses and the trust we can and really must have in the scientific method. A must-listen. The historical marker includes the Pony Express, Leeuwenhoek and his protozoans, the World Series and the United Nations. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment rig...2023-10-2318 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastDr Deborah Fuller, University of Washington, Virology and vaccines. Whom do we trust? Part 1In episode 4.5 of the BYU podcast, Deborah Fuller helps us understand the complicated and powerful world of viruses and what we should know to stay above the fray of politicizing the basics. This is Part 1 of a 2-part mini-series with the professor. She was the go-to person on Bloomberg television in 2020 and 2021 during the major storm of the COVID=19 crisis, especially in the USA.In the historical marker, we see Crimea, Alaska, a commercial nuclear power plant and an exploding zeppelin. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod w...2023-10-1618 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastMiguel Fernandes from Portugal, potter, thinker, cartoonistMeet Miguel Fernandes whose studio encourages artists in ceramics and cartooning. We met in Turkey in August and he along with his girlfriend Mariana help run the studio. Contact him at the website: www.cobalto.org or use Instagram at his @ozzy_floyd (with a nod to Pink Floyd who performed in Pompeii) or the studio Insta on @Coletivo_CobaltoThe historical marker includes Spiro Agnew, the invasion of Beirut, and a lost United Airlines airplane. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel f...2023-10-0918 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastDr Pam Crabtree of NYU on archaeologyWhat do bones actually teach us when an archaeologist finds them? Dr. Pam Crabtree is a professor, a mentor, and an enthusiastic learner of history as it helps us navigate life in 2023 and beyond. She speaks about AI and ancient civilizations as if they are juxtaposed. Enjoy this New York native!Historical markers include OJ Simpson and Mussolini, the Maltese Falcon and the reunification of Germany.Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his...2023-10-0218 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastBob speaking on Yom Kippur and a local funeral50 years ago during the Yom Kippur war, Moshe Dayan made some statements. That along with the death of a 46-year-old Jewish woman in Sydney, along with Yom Kippur itself provides the backdrop for Bob's sharing his thoughts today. The historical marker includes Francis Drake, John Kennedy and a debate on television, and Abbey Road!Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.comLink to https://www.facebook.com/p...2023-09-2618 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastGod is a scorekeeper? Not so! A Rosh Hashanah message5784 is the counted year since Creation and God as King continues to come to the foreground for us Jewish people. How do you picture him? Olympic Judge? Listen as Bob Mendelsohn ponders Elvis and forgiveness and what it might mean for you in these 10 Days of Awe.Historical marker includes George Washington, Mary Tyler Moore and Chattanooga Tennessee and the American Civil War.Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo...2023-09-1918 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastShane Stubbs (Part 2): The new science of physical healthShane introduces us in Part 2 of his two-part conversation to the New Science of Physical Health (his ongoing podcast) and his dream to have a million downloads! And he shares the latest, a battle, in a virtual war on health featuring Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Amazing technology. Listen to that Wellness War here.Also Shane has the Outsmart Classroom featured here. The historical marker of the week features Switzerland and neutrality and the damages in black history viz. Steve Biko and South Africa. And more than that... keep listening. Support th...2023-09-1118 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastShane Stubbs, coach, podcaster, health and wellness Part 1He's a podcaster and loves to talk about health and overcoming the Big 4: which include obesity and cardiovascular and molecular problems. His goal is simple: help people get healthier. And it's not rocket science-- it's finding what you love and doing it! You'll enjoy this Part 1 of a 2-part series. His podcast is the New Science of Physical Health. Historical markers of the week relate to 20th-century sport, the Olympics in 1972 and Cal Ripken, Jr. as well as Jim Henson and the Muppets in 1976.Support the showThanks for listening. Please sh...2023-09-0418 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastLance Woodruff, world traveller, musician, New Orleans nativeLance grew up in New Orleans and loves his Saints, even watching them from everywhere! He is a musician who loves clowns, and along with his wife Michelle, he travels the world finding Bora Bora and Norway the best places he has ever seen. What a delightful fellow. He even gives me travel advice about Turkey!Historical marker of the week includes New Orleans and the Ottoman empire. As well as Michael Faraday.Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment r...2023-08-2818 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastSuzanne Scullion of GRACE Financial ConsultingWhat a delightful and informed woman speaking about coaching in Finances! Such a needful task in our over-spending days. She lives in Virginia and can help anyone anywhere. Contact her through her website: https://gracefinancialcoaching.com/ OR listen to her podcast: Lessons Learned Podcast: The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Done with Money. Historical marker includes Henry Tudor ended the War of the Roses. And liquid soap was invented and patented. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right her...2023-08-2118 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastJared Altic, Police chaplain and comforterMeet Jared Altic, a chaplain to hundreds of men and women in the police force of the Kansas City area. He's many a story of bravery and comfort that will remind us all of our need to stand in the gap with others. He's also a Jayhawk fan and a Chiefs football fan, so he's got to be a good guy!The historical marker of the week includes Elvis, the Panama Canal, Macbeth, Bahrain's independence, and Woodstock.Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and...2023-08-1418 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastRuth Hovsepian from Montreal on Food addiction and Porn addiction (Part 2)Her message is that there is hope, no matter what. This is clear in her own podcast (Out of the Darkness with Ruth Hovsepian) and on this episode of the BYU podcast. You are sure to be inspired. She is forthright... buckle your seat belt. Advice for parents as well as us everyday folks.The historical marker includes the Gaon of Vilna, hot air balloons, Brigham Young and Mormons, and the 1303 earthquake in Crete that caused a tsunami in Egypt!Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with yo...2023-08-0718 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastRuth Hovsepian from Montreal on Prayer and Preacher's Kid and Porn addiction (Part 1)And don't forget weight loss and depression, this episode is all about gaining control of your life and finding peace with yourself. Ruth shares in this first of a 2-part podcast, about her struggles in life, divorce, raising kids alone, sex and porn addiction and what is prayer, anyway? A serious woman with a great personality, you will want to keep listening to her for a long time. Her podcast is here: https://www.ruthhovsepian.com/out-of-the-darkness-with-ruth-hovsepian-podcast and you will be glad you tuned in. Support the showThanks fo...2023-07-3118 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastGrace Tran of California on Small Groups and Seeking truthGrace is from California and when she worked for Google she lived in Sydney, but in 2018 that all changed and she is now a content creator, a ghost writer and a leader of a small group. What is that about?The historical marker of the week includes the Spanish-American War, Ben Franklin's first government job in the US, Bob Dylan and the Andrea Doria.Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email...2023-07-2418 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastAaron Harvey of the Inner Expeditions Podcast on anxiety and Western Australia!Aaron is a family man who has lived in Western Australia almost all his life and after a bit of a struggle with work and family and anxiety, he began a turnaround that has launched him in new directions. Inner Expeditions is his podcast, and well worth the hour to listen. His guests are good thinkers. You can find it on Spotify or Apple, of course. And this to find out about the online Anxiety Relief Summit: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=285674467314717&set=a.173489061866592https://open.spotify.com/show/24tvNnfKLj8guzuDQH47fP?si=Fe1T...2023-07-1718 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastWhat's love got to do with it? Bob speaking on LOVEOver the years, the popular opinion of love continues to morph, but at the end of the day, most people agree that Love is what keeps the world going and going well. Bob shares from the Scriptures the power of the choice of love, and that actions follow that choice. We love because God first loved us. Agree?The historical marker includes Hamilton and Burr's famous duel. And Gough Whitlam, the Australian prime minister who was sacked by the Queen, as well as two significant birthdays of Bob's family.Support the showT...2023-07-1118 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastLaura Mitchell on Contamination and Spatial dataLearning about contaminants both in soil and in the world around us, that gives us reason to hope. Laura Mitchell is a young Sydney woman involved in detective work and investigations for schools and the government related to making sure safety is maintained. The environmental protection act was not really developed until 1997! How does her work impact your life? Stay tuned.The historical marker is related to US Independence, as well as Lou Gehrig and the 1842 'Mines and Collieries Act' which bans women and children from working underground.Support the showThanks...2023-07-0418 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastBob speaking on self-identification and dysphoriaWhat does it mean that we can or should self-identify? What role does seeking your self have in finding yourself? Borrowing from Crystal Raypole and her article in Healthline (Article is here) Bob helps us think through the issue and calls us to consider what God made us to be.The historical marker includes nuclear power, Joseph Smith and the first women-only magazine. You will be surprised at the year of its founding. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to...2023-06-2718 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastAnother bonus episode (Is God done with Israel?)This is the sermon Bob gave on 11 June in Sydney (at Burwood Presbyterian Church) when he was asked to preach on the biblical passage titled "Romans Chapter 11." It has to be one of the toughest passages in the Bible and specifically relates to how God and thus, how anyone, should treat the Jewish people. What do you think? It's not the usual length of 18 minutes, rather 26 minutes and 19 seconds. Sorry for the lengthening of your listening, but hope you enjoy this. To read the manuscript, it's on my Blog here.Support the show...2023-06-1226 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastThe Bad Samaritan (a bonus episode. 28 minutes)This was not the ordinary podcast for the week. This was a sermon given at the end of the National Reconciliation Week in Sydney on 4 June 2023. The pastor of the Grace Christian Church invited Bob to speak about the Woman at the Well story (Recorded in John chapter 9). This is what Bob said. To read the manuscript, it is on Bob's blog click here. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.com...2023-06-0426 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastGiving thanks. One year anniversary.One year ago last weekend, I experienced a 'green light' highway of bureaucracy and you will shake your head in amazement about how smooth the day became after a horrible beginning. And you will turn and say, "Thanks" as well as I did and still am!Historical marker includes George "Babe" Ruth and Joan of Arc. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.comLink to https://www.f...2023-05-3018 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastIsaac Brickner on Mental Anxiety and the Ancient remedy (Part 2 of 2)Isaac's delightful and personable interview concludes after a review of some of the highlights from episode 3.22 and mental anxiety, we move into a deeper look at his own life, his own pleasures and his family. And learn a bit about Hafooch, the Upside Down Cafe in UCLA's neighbourhood. The historical marker of the week includes Bonnie and Clyde, Heinrich Himmler and the Australia Gold Rush (#2)For Isaac's podcast listen here: upsidedown_LA wherever you get podcasts. The Walls: An Art Exhibition location is 205 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst in Sydney's East. Room 205 is the name of...2023-05-2218 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastIsaac Brickner on Mental Anxiety and the Ancient remedy (Part 1 of 2)Isaac runs a cafe named "Upside Down" in Los Angeles, across the street from the University of California (UCLA). He has seen an increase in mental anxiety among the students that seems new and he often wonders what will help them the most. In this part 1 of a 2-part interview, Isaac identifies the problem and the beginning of the solution. It's much older than we think.The historical marker of the week includes Estonia, Queen Elizabeth II and the Warsaw Ghetto.Isaac's article is found on the JFJ site here: https://jewsforjesus.org/learn/is-ancient-jewish-wisdom-the-antidote-to-modern-anxiety 2023-05-1518 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastBob Live on Walls in Sydney's east: What walls you away from others? What walls give you comfort?In this episode Bob shares whilst in the space they rented at Room 205, about walls, and what walls us away from others and what walls give us hope as well. With quotes from GK Chesterton and with thoughts about preventions and possibilities of comfort-- what is a wall or a fence? How did it get there? Historical marker includes Birth control, John Brown of Harpers Ferry, the Beatles' final album "Let it be" and a bit more.Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and f...2023-05-0918 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastDr Ken Curry, cardiologist, Pickleball champion, and man of faithThis gentle man and his wife were in Brisbane to visit with their new grandchildren born only a month ago. A great testimony to the value of exercise using pickleball, and the power of faith itself. The historical marker of the week includes baseball for Negros, the purchase of the Louisiana Territory and the death of Osama bin Laden. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.comLink to...2023-05-0118 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastTony Mantor, singer, producer, Nashville mavenYou will enjoy meeting and hearing Tony Mantor, a Nashville transplant from New England in the US, who is an award-winning and many times nominated Grammy producer in the music industry. Of late, his enthusiasm for making the world a better place has helped him to work for those with autism and to dedicate his new podcast to relief of this neurological and developmental disorder. Contact Tony on www.tonymantor.com or on Social media under his name.The historical marker includes ANZAC day, the guillotine and why we have license plates on cars and motorcycles.2023-04-2418 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastBernard Faulhammer Part 2 of 2 on Sex Addiction, Pornography and Shame. How it worksListening to the interview with Bernard Faulhammer, I was struck with his gentleness and compassion. He grew up in South Africa, had a stint in Europe, then returned to Africa before moving over to Australia. He is involved with Pure Desire, a Christian sex addiction support organization. How it works is fascinating. Reach Bernard on email at Bernard@PureDesire.org or his direct website on https://bit.ly/BernardLink The Historical Marker involves WW2, Zimbabwe, Ernie Pyle and the legendary ride of Paul Revere.Support the showThanks for listening. Please s...2023-04-1718 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastBernard Faulhammer Part 1 of 2 on Sex Addiction, Pornography and ShameIn the first of the two-part series, this South African native now living in West Australia, shares his own story and unpacks how Pure Desire, an organisation that began about 3 decades ago, helped him cope and succeed in life. Bernard now helps men in 14 countries in the South Pacific and is open to help more of us. Recovery is the winner!Contact him at bernard@puredesire.org or visit his website on https://bit.ly/BernardLinkThe historical marker includes Adolf Eichman's trial in Jerusalem, Mt Tambora in Indonesia, and Idi Amin. Support the...2023-04-1018 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastBob speaking on Passover/ Easter 2023... this time of year seems rightI share my views about the religious holidays of Passover and Easter in today's episode. And why do they usually land in the same week? Do they celebrate similar or different themes? Historical markers of the week include Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, William Henry Harrison (see link: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Tyler ) and Bill Gates founded a company. More on Passover and Easter from my article April 2023 in Eternity magazine: https://www.eternitynews.com.au/opinion/how-easter-and-passover-fit-together/Support the showThanks for listening. P...2023-04-0318 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastJosh Gaddis on Rethinking HospitalityThe chains of hotels might be offputting to you, but it's a challenge taken by our guest Mr Josh Gaddis of Arab, Alabama in this episode. He is the podcaster on the show Rethinking Hospitality and you will want to hear his heart and passion for the industry and his love for his mother, too. Also there is a contest you might win if you listen and reply first.The historical marker of the week involves Turkeye (yes, that's how it's now spelled) in 1930 and again back in the Crimean War. Support the show2023-03-2718 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastMark Rogers, musician, carer at Jewish homes, Friend of IsraelBob again met up with Mark in Melbourne where Mark and his wife have lived for 6 years. They shared over coffee about Jewish care and music that calms the hearts of elderly folks. He's a stand-up guy who loves Jewish people and Israel. Not bad for a Gentile. Historical marker includes wrong date for the return of Messiah, and Jews being blamed for the Black Death, and there is more!Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write t...2023-03-2018 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastKelvin Crombie (Part 2 of 2). Holocaust simplified. Is that possible?We finish our interview with Kelvin Crombie from West Australia and his passion and studies in The Holocaust. He tells amazing stories of Jewish people who survived the horrors of that terror and kept or found their faith. And the 7 phases of Hitler's plan to exterminate and rid the world, or at least his world, of Jewish people. Including the Madagascar Plan. I'd never heard of that one!The historical marker includes Cyprus' queen, the cotton gin's invention and the Salvation Army's movement to the US.Support the showThanks for listening.2023-03-1318 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastKelvin Crombie (Part 1 of 2) from WA and Israel... his own story begins!Kelvin was born and raised on a farm in West Australia but found the meaning of life in Israel in the 1970s. What is that about? He married his girlfriend there and they have four daughters all born in Israel. But now he lives back in WA and has not only his story to tell, but why he keeps writing book after book and what they mean to him. Buckle your seat belt... his story is well worth listening. His website is here: https://www.heritageresources.com.auSupport the showThanks for listening.2023-03-0718 minBobs Your Uncle PodcastBob speaking on JoyWith citations from Stuart Briscoe, the Dalai Lama, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Bob helps us understand joy in contrast to happiness. Using Yiddish words helps also including kvel, nachas and simcha. Historical marker includes M-A-S-H and the birth of Bugsy Siegel. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.comLink to https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078996765315 on Facebook. Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob...2023-02-2818 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastBob speaking on legacy and religion and tolerance ...Mardi Gras today!Bob speaks today about a crucial law and survey being taken in Australia due on 24 February! The survey is here: https://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiry/anti-discrimination-laws/submission/survey/ Please fill it out and submit it straight away. Your views should be heard!Also a bit of Bible info from Micah chapter 1 and from the book of Ecclesiastes, the wisdom of Solomon. Do you believe it? What is your legacy? What will you be leaving your family and others?The historical marker includes Malcolm X and Sticky Bun day (no correlation)Happy Mardi Gras to...2023-02-2118 min
Bobs Your Uncle PodcastRainbows and stealing... how do those connect?When my grandson began playing on the ground with a painted rainbow last Shabbat, it caught my eye. And then reading about the Stonewall Riots, Harvey Milk, and the Pride of the Gay and Lesbians in NY and San Francisco, it all began to make sense. They do connect, but the rainbow? That's a sacred image...thou shalt not steal, you know?Historical marker of the week includes Valentines Day, Ayatollah Khomeini and Al Capone. Support the showThanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to...2023-02-1418 min