Leah’s Blog – Parashat Nitzavim – Vayelech
Leah’s Blog Nitzavim – September 2024 I don’t know what the source to having sponge cake and whiskey after prayer service is, but that’s what we did in our shul
Leah’s Blog – Ki Tavo September 2024
Ki Tavo – TIME TO GO HOME -September 2024 Perhaps it was a ringing in the sky that woke me. Sometimes I get insomnia – there are good reasons, not so much for fear and worry as
Leah’s Blog – Ki Tetzeh 2024
Ki Tetzeh September 2024 Leahs blog There is a junction, a one minute’s drive from ours into Itamar that soldiers guard and check Awarta (home of the Fogel murderers) veh
Leah’s Blog – Parshat Reeh – August 2024
Leah’s Blog – Parshat Reeh – August 2024 In the time of the strengthening ritual of sweeping the early autumn leaves and what that means to me, we celebrat
Leah’s Blog – Parashat Devarim
Leah’s Blog – Devarim The mulberry leaves meet the maple under the protective nighttime sky, green against black. Here in our garden tucked under a ledge of rock, the a
Leah’s Blog – Parashat Matot- Masey
Matot- Masey- The War against the enemy The quiver of a hamsin wind blows through the olive trees on either side of the road heading east and home. The sun makes the dust all aroun
Leah’s Blog – Pinchas 2024
Pinchas 2024 As soon as the sun sets and the sky between the mountains of the Blessing and the Curse turns a bright orange in the July sky, we reach Mount Kabir on the edge of the
Leah’s Blog Parashat Chukat 2024
Chukat – July 2024- Leah’s Blog The tangy scent of salt comes up from the lowest place on earth. Deep down below the lowest cliffs that face the Dead Sea lies a few places
Leah’s Blog – Parashat Shlach 2024
Leah’s Blog – June 2024 -Shlach – DARE TO DO IT Return to Zion always carries the theme of leaving the realm of familiar and entering the unknown. It starts with Lech Lec
Leah’s Blog – Shavuot – 2024
Shavuot – 2024 The tawny rolling fields of wheat and barley that surround Bethlehem ripple in the June breeze. They slope downwards, east, to the Jordan River where they face Moa
