Leah’s Blog Dec 24th 2020
Vayigash 2020 You know that part of the wedding when the photographer passes around the mike and poignant statements are videoed for life? Uncle Milty’s took the
Leah’s Blog Parashat Miketz 2020
Miketz 2020 Socialism: You have two cows. You keep one and you give one to your neighbor. Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Communism: You hav
Leah’s blog Dec 10th 2020
Way before I met and knew Shakid, and our other Pashtun brothers, I thought I knew everything about Yosef HaTzaddik. Joseph’s tomb site was once a secure attachment for us. L
Leah’s Blog Dec 2 2020
Vayishlach 2020 I can just make out from the view down the western slopes of Mount Gerizzim an impressive building from the past that peeks out above the heavily popula
Leah’s Blog Toldot 2020
Hand in hand, Shlomo and I walk up to the Tel just behind our house. Not abashed at holding my hand even at age ten, he excitedly says, “Savta, this IS school!” His ent
Leah’s Blog Parshat Vayerah
Parshat Vayera 2020 I purr in a moment of bliss on the lounge chair facing the ever-changing colors of fall splendor. The birds are chirping quietly and contentedly now in th
Leah’s Blog Parashat Noah 2020
Parshat Noach 2020 Noah’s ark got me thinking about the last time I was on a boat. It was last summer, a hot dry one here in Israel. Our destination -Norway
Leah’s Blog Oct 15th 2020
Bereishit 2020 Back to the Garden A young boy in Itamar has set out to prepare the organic garden for autumn. Intuitively, he knows what to do. He tills the earth
Leah’s Blog – Yom Kippur 2020
The ground on which u stand is holy” world renown archeologist and Israel Antiquities authority Eli Shukrun told us as we went down into a labyrinth of tunnels almost slippin
Leah’s Blog
Nitzavim September 11, 2020 As Israel is about to enter a new lockdown I was just thinking how liberating in certain ways it is to chill out, and pre-pare for the holid
