leon gork tour guide
Tiberias
Galei Gil on the promenade of the Sea of Galilee at sunset. The town of Tiberias is one of Israel’s most popular vacation spots, both in...
Search
leon gork tour guide
- May 30
- 3 min
My loving mother
Sin for me meant doing something bad to a woman. Theft held no attraction for me. I never longed to own something belonging to someone...
3 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- May 27
- 4 min
Back to school
"Put your child back in school", my old uncle Louie, looking through half-shut eyes, filled with smoke, hurled this command, at his...
17 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- May 15
- 4 min
Choosing the right path in life
In the eyes of my parents, I was a strange boy. When vacation time came around I was out looking for work while my friends sunbathed at...
2 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- May 14
- 5 min
Meeting disappointments head on
I'd started with a bag full of marbles and ended with two. I kicked my feet against the wall, shifting my last two glass pebbles from one...
29 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Mar 11
- 3 min
Insult can bring understanding
Once again an insult brought me self-understanding, the most important achievement of a human being. I had handed my iPhone with the...
20 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Mar 10
- 2 min
The Cemetery
There they lie. The earliest inhabitants of Krugersdorp and the latest, row after row of black granite stones with names and dates carved...
197 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Mar 4
- 2 min
Krugersdorp Jews
David Super calls himself Dovid, the way David is pronounced in Yiddish, the language spoken in Eastern Europe, where Jews had lived for...
14 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Mar 4
- 4 min
Going to Heaven.
The first time in my life that I set eyes on a dead human being was a month ago in Toronto. Raymond’s wife had told me he was in the...
9 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Jan 13
- 6 min
The Disagreement
Tues 14th Dec 2021 Evelyn now used a walker. Holding on to it, she came to the door and there I stood. After not seeing her for about 2...
4 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Dec 26, 2021
- 3 min
Christmas in Krugersdorp 1960
The festive season always causes my thoughts to return to Krugersdorp. For example, Easter brings me back to the Easter eggs, I loved so...
6 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Oct 23, 2021
- 5 min
My Father's Story
This story just goes to show that we are products of history, which can’t be changed. It is what it is and all that we can do is accept...
106 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Oct 20, 2021
- 5 min
Winelands of South Africa and Israel
Leon's No News Bulletin 137 S. Africa is a vast country by any standards; 1,221,000 km2, approx 50,000,000 people and about the same...
10 views1 comment
leon gork tour guide
- Oct 9, 2021
- 3 min
Guilt and Self-pity
I released the handbrake of the brand new Hudson. The sensation of holding the steering wheel, like dad, as the vehicle rolled backward,...
20 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Sep 25, 2021
- 2 min
The Tree
For man is a tree of the field. I walked away from my apartment, in the predawn darkness. I could pat myself on the back, because I had...
8 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Sep 24, 2021
- 1 min
My Succah
With the bamboo covering, my Succah was ready for guests. The list was very long, and they had been invited many centuries ago. The size...
6 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Sep 19, 2021
- 4 min
My Life 4
Hebrew Teacher's Seminary The big white house, After failing at Wits university I enrolled in the Rabbi Zlotnik seminary for Hebrew...
6 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Sep 16, 2021
- 2 min
Cousing Mickey
Goodbye Cousin Mickey On the passing of my cousin Mickey 11th Sep 2021 We must have met often as children, but I don’t remember her from...
3 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Sep 16, 2021
- 1 min
Learn Hebrew
Confession of sins on the day of Atonement ווידוי ביום כפור Vidui b'yom kippur Atonement is therefore the way to happiness. But a man who...
31 views0 comments
leon gork tour guide
- Sep 4, 2021
- 2 min
Happy New Year
The History of Prayer God is attentive to the prayers of the weak and downcast, especially on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, according to...
31 views0 comments