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
Leah’s Blog – Jerusalem Day 2024
Jerusalem Day – 2024 Walking through the quaint shaded alleyways of Yemin Moshe this past Shabbat had me, on reaching the famous windmill facing the walls of the Old City, wonder
Leah’s Blog – Pesach Sheni 2024
Leah’s Blog – Pesach Sheini – A second chance -2024 Pesach Sheini is the only time you can actually accomplish the mitzvah of a time bound holiday at a later date. Pe
Leah’s Blog – Yom Haatzmaut 2024 – Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day- Memorial Day- Yom Haatzmaut 2024 This is dedicated to all the amazing mothers that love Israel and have taught their children to. Mother’s Day had me thin
Leah’s Blog – Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day – to Be or not To Be There is a beautiful shelf of rock here on Itamar that stands at the elevation of 866 meters above sea level. I’ve probably take
Leah’s Blog – Pesach 2024
Pesach 2024 And as my dear mom of blessed memory would say, “April showers bring May flowers”. Before Pesach it always seems to get worse before it gets better. Messes
Leah’s Blog – Parashat Tazriah 2024
The Jordan River- the place of the birth of Israel Date Palms, olive trees and pomegranates adorn the banks of the Jordan River here in this spot. It is overcast today and an unusu
Leah’s Blog – Shemini 2024
Leah’s Blog – Shemini For two thousand years, Israel was incorporeal for Jews as the bulk of our prayers did ask for return to the physical form of land and government.
