Jerusalem Walks Leon's Walks

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...

"Put your child back in school", my old uncle Louie, looking through half-shut eyes, filled with smoke, hurled this command, at his...

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...

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...

David Super calls himself Dovid, the way David is pronounced in Yiddish, the language spoken in Eastern Europe, where Jews had lived for...

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...

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...

I released the handbrake of the brand new Hudson. The sensation of holding the steering wheel, like dad, as the vehicle rolled backward,...

I passed Matric. Successful me, from now on smooth sailing, the world at my feet, like a sweet apple waiting for me to take a bite. No...

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...

Thousands of kilometres and I’d never had a puncture, thanks to Eli. He’d checked my tyres for donkeys years. One day his mother died....

Jack Holzman plumbers and plumbing supplies, up there in Human Str. on the ground floor of the building better known to the gambling...

At long last Ariel and Lilach turned up with Ophir and Alon. Ariel had said they’d be here at 2 and now it was close to 5. I never give...

The big room one sees on entering our front door is divided into two, first comes the dining area then the living room. My six year old...

I could only assume from the look on the faces of my wife and children that they were saying something interesting to each other. We were...

Life was slowly returning to normal, after a year of lockdowns, wearing masks, not meeting with large groups of people. Each day Etti was...

My search for shortcuts had begun at a very young age. You may think it absurd, but I think it began already when I was a baby sucking on...

The Katzen family was unbelievable, among the social circles of Krugersdorp that I was familiar with. I think it's because they never...

For Etti and I, Covid means being at home together for a long time. There’s no work to go to for either of us. We have a fair division of la

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