At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.
“A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.”
“I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.”