Leah’s Blog Parashat Vayeshev 2023 Chanukah
Leah’s Blog Parshat Vayeshev – December 2023 Chanukah When you were sleeping, and I was dreaming, something was whirling in the air. When people come to visit me here t
Leah’s Blog – Nov 29 2023
Parshat Vayishlach – November 30 2023 The terrain and setting in which we live affects us for the good and the bad depending on how we internalize, sift and make sense of the int
Leah’s Blog Parashat Toldot 2023
Toldot – Vayishlach November 23, 2023 If you have been here and I have taken you up to the mountain of the three seas (866 meters above sea level), you have seen the Yabbok c
Leah’s Blog – Parashat Chayeh Sarah
Chayeh Sarah I’ve been putting extra sugar in my coffee these days. Heck, we need to sweeten life. After venturing out through the terror town of Huwara and into civilization
Leah’s Blog Parashat Vayerah 2023
Leah’s Blog – Vayera – November 2023 The prickly pear still grows in Shunem, just north of Mount Gilboa. This time of year the cactus flowers, its fruit hangs red, he
Leah’s Blog Parashat Lech Licha 2023
Lech Lecha – October 2023 The biography of the Jewish people is what is known as the Bible. As events unfold, folds of time become revealed to us and teach us. Every portion
Leah’s Blog – The Ark
The Ark It is 11 days now that we are mourning, churning, gathering. Usually my body temperature is hotter than most people. Today I burn. Even now as the autumn makes its way into
Leah’s Blog Israel at War – The Black Sabbath
Leah’s Blog Israel at War The Black Sabbath I felt. I knew. I told. Helmets, bullet proof vests, magazines of ammunition and army gear are strewn around our community as men
Leah’s Blog Yom Kippur – 2023
Yom Kippur 5784 When I was a little girl, the holy days would begin my autobiography. Not knowing it, I would be led to the places I yearned to see, stories like Yonah and the wh
Leah’s blog – A New Sweet Year – Rosh Hashanah 2023
Leah’s blog – A New Sweet Year – Rosh Hashanah 2023 As a part of a plan I had for Shlomo’s Bar Mitzvah project, I wanted to do something fun and meaningful bu
