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.
Leah’s Blog – Purim 2024
Leah’s Blog – Purim – The Theater of the Absurd 2024 A barrage of missiles hits the northern border here in Israel now. The burnt bloody houses of the kibbutzim in th
Leah’s Blog – Vayakhel 2024
Vayakhel – March 2024 October 7 2023 which was a Shabbat and Simchat Torah had our family together as a unit which had not been possible for some time due to Yosef and Efrayi
Leah’s Blog Parashat Tezaveh 2024
Leah’s Blog – Tezaveh – February 2024 It was a day that I stepped out of the house towards Michal who sat parked, car engine running. Excited to go to the Petach Tikv
Leah’s Blog – Parashat Terumah
Parshat Terumah – THE RESCUE OPERATION- February 2024 On a hill here tucked behind a mountain, my friend Orna is weaving the curtains for the Third Temple. Inconspicuous as t
Leah’s Blog Yitro 2024
Yitro – February 2024 When our dear friend Mike Clayton came this week we thought we’d take him on the less travelled road east of our cliffs tipping down into the
Leah’s Blog Parashat Bishalach Tu B’ishvat 2024
Beshalach – Tu Bshvat It has been a very hard week here in Israel but before anything – “I am G-d who heals you.” Take that with you, now – especially on this day
Leah’s Blog Parashat BO 2024
Parshat BO Not too far from our house here in Itamar, torches were lit in the Jordan Valley on the Sartaba (Alexandrion) every Rosh Chodesh to usher in the New moon. The first sigh
Leah’s Blog Parashat Vaerah
Leah’s Blog – Vaerah – January 2024 Chodesh Tov. Winter intensifies now as the life force in the dead looking trees pump cold breaths of soon renewal. The foliage
Leah’s Blog Parashat Shemot
Shemot – January 2024 This is going to sound like a huge cliché but Shifrah delivered Merav’s baby last Shabbat. I was sitting with Moshe and the kids in the green are
