Leah’s Blog -Holocaust Day 2021
Our grasp of history usually hits home from how it touches upon the present time and enables us to perceive our not taken for granted lives now. In Israel all the more so, this pha
Leah’s Blog Seventh day of Pesach
Israel, a land of dreams and freedom It wasn’t in the relentless traffic jam on our way to Zichron Yaakov that “go east” had become our motto. On that tiny strip
Leah’s Blog Pesach 2021
Pesach 2021 Leaning on my overflowing wagon, I escape the supermarket busting in its full glory of bounty and people streaming up and down the aisle like balls in a pinball machine
Leah’s Blog – Parashat Ki Tisa
Ki Tissa 2021 Even before Babylon came crashing down unto Jerusalem, before her outer walls were even ruptured, King Yehoshiyahu took the broken and whole tablets that Moshe Rabbei
Leah’s Blog Parashat Trumah 2021
Terumah 2021 This blog was originally intended to share the experiences and pleasantries of a Jewish woman living in the heart of biblical Israel. I’m just an average simple
Leah’s Blog Parashat Yitro 2021
Bitya, I saw you at Sinai. It was more like, I saw your silhouette, white on black in a clap of thunder. You were surrounded by a gilded cloud of bronze as the mount surrounded us
Leah’s Blog Tu B’Shvat 2021
Leah’s Blog – Tu B’Shvat 2021 Our earliest neighbors here on Itamar were (and are) organic farmers. Back in those days the remoteness of Samaria in its new beginnings enabled
Leah’s Blog Parashat Bo 2021
Leah’s Blog Parashat Bo 2021 My life is like a movie. It pulses down and up rapidly- like the monitor of a beating heart, my beating heart. Down and up down and u
Leah’s Blog Parashat Vaerah 2021
Vaera – 2021 Time is speeding by and I can’t do things fast enough. It’s Thursday morning and I’m baking challah; The dough bubbles and rises slowly, but my tim
Leah’s Blog Parashat Vayechi 2021
Vayechi 2021 The tractate of Baba Batrah in the Gemara tells us about a place in the forest that the doe goes to in order to give birth. The bam
