Leah’s Blog

Vayishlach   2020 I can just make out from the view down the western slopes of Mount Gerizzim an impressive building from the past [...]

Hand in hand, Shlomo and I walk up to the Tel just behind our house. Not abashed at holding my hand even at [...]

Parshat Noach    2020 Noah’s ark got me thinking about the last time I was on a boat. It was last summer, a hot [...]

Bereishit   2020  Back to the Garden A young boy in Itamar has set out to prepare the organic garden for autumn. Intuitively, he [...]

Nitzavim   September 11, 2020 As Israel is about to enter a new lockdown I was just thinking how liberating in certain ways it [...]

Ki Tavo   September 2 2020 A special cousin of mine gathered the family to third and fourth cousins for a synchronized zoom meeting [...]

Shoftim   2020 Elul is here, I have no idea how that happened. The weather has turned autumn-like before its time. I am raking [...]

Parshat Re-eh   August 2020 My maternal grandmother of blessed memory was a firestorm! She had a strong German accent, orange eyes and a [...]