Jerusalem Walks Leon's Walks

I was proud of my brother and tried to emulate him

Movie interpretations

Boulders of ice rolled down the corrugated iron roof

To his great surprise, he became a grandfather for the third time

Childhood anger

fun in a dinghy

A childhood conflict between movies and religion

"The picture doesn't show me", I cried. Not being noticed, or left out of the group, was my greatest fear, and it has come about....

Ginger went out into the dark and rainy night. Driven, as if by a force beyond control, to consort with a female feline, the tomcat...

A news item about a Tour Guides course, caught my eye. I immigrated to Israel. Lotteries were prohibited in South Africa, where I came...

“It’s the battery,” said Etti in a crying voice. “The towing service will have to come again”. Long ago, when I was still young and...

I was just saying to Ettie as we drove towards Tel Aviv that I’m not going to any expensive restaurants. We get better food and more of...

My roughneck cousins rolled on the ground holding their stomachs with laughter at the sight of me, wailing pitifully, caught in the midst...

A story of pure fiction. The attack was over in seconds. The grimace turned into a relieved smile as Leon waited on the pitch to hit the...

Note: I have put the story in my father’s mouth, as I believe he would have told it, had he been able. We had a child, a son, and wanted...

"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...

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

There they lie. The earliest inhabitants of Krugersdorp and the latest, row after row of black granite stones with names and dates carved...