Leah’s Blog Parahshat Chukat – July 4th
July 4th weekend and thoughts about Patriotism in Israel OK- so here it goes, you definitely don’t know this about me- when I was young and dumb, life had to teach me a few lesso
Leah’s Blog Parashat Korach 2022
Leah’s Blog Korach 2022 Pride and Prejudice It was in the summer of 1986, the end of a year of searching for a hilltop in Judea Samaria while living in an absorption cent
Leah’s Blog Parashat Shlach
Shlach 2022 ACQUIRING ISRAEL THROUGH LOOKING DEEPER When the King of the Kahzars asked the Rabbi in the famous book, “The Kuzari” by Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi, how he coul
Leah’s Blog Tom Haatzmaut 2022 – Israel Independence day
Yom Haatzmaut – The truth about God A wall of sound pierces the hem of the Kotel as the siren wails into the night. The sky is black and the dim lights of the mosque overhead see
Leah’s Blog Pesach 2022
Pesach – About Bread, Matzoh, Maror Then and Now -2022 A donkey is braying, a helicopter is chopping up the air, whipping and hovering above the valley between the twin mountains
Leah’s Blog Tazria 2022
Tazria – 2022 We are all in a national anxiety here, close to a heart attack. People look behind them as they walk in the street, feeling unsafe. Truth being said- they ARE NOT S
Leah’s Blog Parashat Shmini 2022
Parshat Shemini – 2022 Life and death seem to take the headline now. Some of us are able to recognize things more; our sense of alertness peaks. The apprehension we all fee
Leah’s Blog Parashat Pikudey
Leah’s Blog Parashat Pikudey – 2022 The red poppies carpeting the cold wet grass of early spring about to come remind me always of beauty as the backdrop of pain. The c
Leah’s Blog Parashat Terumah 2022
Terumah – February 2022 Infinity has a home “Make for Me a Sanctuary and I will dwell within them.” Stooping down, Eli Shookroon, an expert on the City of D
Leah’s Blog January 27 2022 Holocaust Memorial
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY January 2022 A few weeks ago it came out that Russia was stockpiling soldiers and ammunition on the eastern border of the Ukraine, the pictures of