Jerusalem Walks Leon's Walks

Once again an insult brought me self-understanding, the most important achievement of a human being. I had handed my iPhone with the...

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...

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...

The daily order of events took an ominously different turn after I began walking, my knapsack on my back, I’d left out my task of...

The two young girls stood inside the gate, awaiting my arrival. I had promised to meet Chloe, who my cousin Margot, who lives in America,...

Tens of tall apartment blocks had recently been built on the northern crest of the Tzofim Valley. Their white limestone facades looked...

I wanted to be a writer but constant pressure to make a living, left me without any time to become one. Covid 19 changed that situation. Now

Bring me Cappuccino (hafuch in Hebrew). He lowered his mask, put the opening of the cover to his lips, no coffee came out.

Dying of starvation, at 12 Ettie asked, am I hungry. The midday meal would be ready in another hour.

Etti lowered her feet from the bed to the floor, slowly as usual. I was in the kitchen, following my routine

Panting and puffing Luke peered into the darkness enshrouding the eternal city far below him.

7 O'clock in the morning, we're off again, my friend Avraham and I, to catch the bus to the central bus station and from there to catch...

A message for the coming year should give guidelines to behavior that will bring positive results. For example if I was an economist I...

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A Postcard from My Aunty Mona of guards outside Buckingham Palace 1950 (for the reverse side, see below) Two weeks ago Ettie and I...

Being forever short of time The tourists have left me in the lurch again and I’ve had to find new ways of amusing myself. I’m rushing...