Jerusalem Walks Leon's Walks

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

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

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...

The History of Prayer God is attentive to the prayers of the weak and downcast, especially on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, according to...

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. ,אַשְׁרֵיהַגַּפְרוּרשֶׁנִּשְׂרַףוְהִצִּיתלֶהָבוֹת Blessed is the flame that burns in the...

The month of Av is the saddest month of the Jewish year.When the temple was destroyed on the 9th of Av.Which works out to Sunday 18th...

Noga and Etti screamed with delight at the sight of the bonfires all over the city. The people were celebrating Lag B’Omer. Singing and...

Noga and Etti screamed with delight at the sight of the bonfires all over the city. The people were celebrating Lag B’Omer. Singing and...

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

2000 years have passed since the destruction of the Jewish temple and they continue to lament But is this because of its loss.

In the Bible, which is a very wise book, there’s a strange story about God (in the form of a man) picking a fight with Jacob. Clearly God wa

A certain rabbi of the Talmud, of 1500 years ago suggests an apparently strange way of celebrating the salvation of the Jews from the...

I cannot allow criticism of my beliefs to go unnoticed. I believe in the correctness of the Jewish religion and Zionism and the value of...

According to archaeologists Yossi Garfinkel and Saar Ganor, a hill shown on maps as Khirbet Qeiyafa is a Biblical city called Shaarayim,...

Tisha Be-Av is a religious festival, celebrated every year by the Jews, to mourn the destruction of the temple, first by the Babylonians...

Not being an enthusiast of dark underground tunnels, usually I walk through a dry, well lit tunnel, actually older than Hezekiah's...

I am often accused of changing my ideas about many things; politics, religion, world leaders, war etc. so I’m happy to note, on...

The fires that raged last week only go to show that the Jewish People have created something of beauty and value that can be burned. A...