Leah’s Blog Parashat Vaerah 2025
THE TORAH Not in a trunk hidden away in the attic, our old manuscripts, letters of covenants are read and re-read here in the synagogue. Rolled out in fresh parchment that the scri
Leah’s Blog – Vayigash – January 2025
Leah’s Blog – Vayigash – January 2025 “And the brothers sat down to eat bread”, the end of the first Yosef Hatzaddik Chapter in what I call the real b
Leah’s Blog Chanukah 2024
Leah’s Blog – Chanukah 2024 Reminiscence of Chanukah lights up warm spots on my heart. Once upon a time before cell phones, my sister and I would be waiting for the bus
Leah’s Blog – Parashat Vayishlach – Arrow’s on Bashan 2024
Vayishlach – December 2024 ARROWS ON BASHAN I don’t know if I ever told you this, but our boys teach special- forces all over the world, coming from Israel is all the more
Leah’s Blog – Chayeh Sarah – 2024
Chayeh Sarah I have always loved clouds, challah and candles, but now I have a heightened awareness of them, especially for Chayeh Sarah. I’m in the process of restarting as
Leah’s Blog Parshat Lech Lecha 2024
Lech lecha – Leah’s Blog – November 2024 Difficult Roads often lead to Beautiful Destinations Almost every night I’ve been going through bags and bags of sunflo
Leah’s Blog Yom Kippur 2024
Leah’s Blog – Yom Kippur תשפה – – October 2024 There are signs of endurance laced throughout our lives. My own father- whose yartzeit is on Yom Kippur wal
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