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Newsletter 69: The Jews and the desert
Shalom everyone, Once a year tour guides in Israel undergo a one day refresher course to renew their license as tour guides. It's against...

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Jan 29, 20084 min read


Newsletter 68: The power of Destiny
Shalom everyone, Nothing gives us the feeling that we're part of the universe more than the calendar. Take this month in the Jewish...

leon gork tour guide
Jan 19, 20083 min read


Newsletter 67: Concern for Israel
Shalom everyone, Shabbat, was the day for visiting my princess. She really looked like a princess in her pink silk, mini-skirt, over pink...

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Jan 9, 20084 min read


Newsletter 66: Israel and Arab cultural exchange
Shalom everyone, The Volvo could easily get away from the police, but there wasn't any hot pursuit through Tiberias, down the Jordan...

leon gork tour guide
Jan 3, 20084 min read


Newsletter 65: Christmas in Israel
Shalom everyone, Christmas holidays pass here without even a notice. Israeli TV found the unusual and highlighted it by informing us that...

leon gork tour guide
Dec 25, 20074 min read


Newsletter 64: The Conceit of Islam
S halom everyone, On Thursday afternoon I had the opportunity to take two Moslem gentlemen from Turkey to the El Aksa Mosque. Although...

leon gork tour guide
Dec 19, 20073 min read


Newsletter 63: God fulfills His Promises
Shalom everyone, On Sunday evening Ettie arranged our annual family Hanukkah party. It required, according to Ettie, a spinach pie, a...

leon gork tour guide
Dec 12, 20073 min read


Newsletter 62: Hanukkah today and yesterday
Shalom everyone, The new Mamila Mall is almost completely open. Walking to the ancient Jaffa Gate, through a street of modern shops faced...

leon gork tour guide
Dec 6, 20074 min read


Newsletter 61: A Visit to Yad Vashem
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...

leon gork tour guide
Nov 26, 20074 min read


Newsletter 60: An Archaeological Discovery
Shalom everyone, On Wednesday afternoon I was waiting as usual outside the government tourist information office at Jaffa Gate for my...

leon gork tour guide
Nov 21, 20073 min read


Newsletter 59: Muslems in Europe
Shalom everyone, I'm forever telling people news of the past; memorable, big time, sensational events associated with the sites of...

leon gork tour guide
Nov 7, 20074 min read


Newsletter 58: The Bible as Jewish Culture
Shalom everyone, Its ages since I wrote no news. So much no news has accumulated that I don't know where to start. September was a great...

leon gork tour guide
Oct 21, 20073 min read


Newsletter 57: Coffee in Sderot
Shalom everyone, You may have noticed that about once a week something new appears on my website. At the moment there's a link to a video...

leon gork tour guide
Sep 27, 20072 min read


Newsletter 56: My Jerusalem tours are like Hyde Park corner
This week an English tourist mentioned some planned restrictions on eating in public in order not to offend the sensitivities of the...

leon gork tour guide
Sep 19, 20072 min read


Leon's Newsletter 55: Vegetarian Restaurants in Israel
appy New Year for all the world, including the animals Shalom everyone, After reading the book "Judaism and Vegetarianism" by Richard H....

leon gork tour guide
Sep 10, 20073 min read


Leon's Newsletter 54: Pure Joy
Shalom everyone, I confess that the goal of my life from the moment of my birth to the present day has been to achieve pure enjoyment,...

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Jul 20, 20073 min read


Leon's Newsletter 53: The Death of Farsh
O mi babino caro Soprano Sally Matthews The sensational events taking place all over the world has once again caused "news" to defeat "no...

leon gork tour guide
Jul 1, 20073 min read


Leon's Newsletter 52: Loyalty and Compassion
Shalom everyone, I never cease to be amazed at the tricks I play on myself to keep myself from writing newsletters and articles. I like...

leon gork tour guide
Jun 3, 20073 min read


Newsletter 51: Disatisfaction with the Government
Shalom everyone, Practically every year students strike. Now the reason is to have a government committee scrapped because they suspect...

leon gork tour guide
May 10, 20072 min read


Newsletter 50: Shuk (Market) opinions
Shalom everyone, Yesterday for the first time in several weeks I met my friend Shaul for coffee in the Shuk. That is Shuk MahanehYehudah...

leon gork tour guide
Apr 30, 20072 min read
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