Jerusalem Walks Leon's Walks

Originlly published:25/3/11 Republished in memory of Mike Smuts, who to my deep regret, recently passed away. He was an old acquaintance from my home town Krugersdorp, whose thoughtfulness I only became aware of in the last few years, through his letters to me about the subject of Good and Evil and God's omniscience. Dear Friends, Shalom, The booby trap bomb managed to explode, killing one person and injuring others in Jerusalem on Wednesday, because it was disguised as an or

Shalom Friends, This has been a busy week. Last night, after I had spent a little time with my son Ariel, his wife, Lilach and his kids, Ophir and Alon and of course Ollie, Ettie fetched me, after she’d spent a day shopping and “clearing her head” which I doubt is a good idea, with her favorite cousin Ayala, in our beautiful Prius, that I don’t drive since giving up my driver’s license for the sake of the bus and walking, to meet our old friends Carmela and Shimon, Ettie’s fr

Shalom everyone, There are various ways of touring Yad Vashem; one can take a resident guide, one can rent earphones, one can go on one's own reading the explanations, looking at the exhibits, listening to witnesses or I can guide tourists around. All the methods excepting the last take about 2 hours. The other day I was with a group who only had 1 hour to spare to see the museum so I chose to do the guiding and explained only a small part of the exhibition. One could divide

O mi babino caro Soprano Sally Matthews The sensational events taking place all over the world has once again caused "news" to defeat "no news". Even so I'm not going to fall into the trap of dealing with "news". I've been put out somewhat by the no news of the sad passing of my little Daschund, Farsh. Although she was already 16 years old she still had a lot of energy and good spirits. Her tail wagged to the last day of her life. Unfortunately she was suffering from some kin

Dear friends and family, As I told you yesterday I finally got round to the opera, Manon Lescaut by Puccini. I'm sorry to admit my ignorance but I had never heard of this opera of Puccini. I knew about Madame Butterfly and I hope the New Israel Opera will put that on one of these days. Manon knows great wealth and great love. Her efforts to take wealth from one man and love from another end up in her being a criminal and dying in the arms of her lover in a distant land, Ameri