Jerusalem Walks Leon's Walks

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.

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

My Aunty Mona never planned to be a lion tamer. An accident forced the choice on her after she had won the 220 m hurdles. She was...

She cherished everything natural and hated artificial things, which were usually found in human beings. Her instincts were as sharp as...

The old horse turned his head to the scratching noise that came from the stable door. This was the sign he'd been waiting for. He nudged the

Bring your arithmetic homework, Ma ordered

Manke, his student cap on his head, on his way to Heder, looked into the stable watching how Scholem struggled, pulling the animal this way

Every Jewish boy has one, but I was scared as hell my parents expected me to have a barmitzvah.

My young nanny came fresh from the kraal, to work for my mother, looking after me and raising me, as she would her own child.

The typewriter The typewriter Her pale blue skirt, wrapped around the outline of a shapely thigh. Thora banged on the black Remington...

Leon’s No Newsletter No 248 Yom Kippur 5780 9th Oct. 2019 Turning over a new leaf Waiting for the 77a (mysteriously Egged scrapped the...