Jerusalem Walks Leon's Walks

I like to carry around, wherever I go, a portable keyboard. Who knows? A moment may arise, as moments are wont to do when I’ll be alone...

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...

Galei Gil on the promenade of the Sea of Galilee at sunset. The town of Tiberias is one of Israel’s most popular vacation spots, both in...

Sin for me meant doing something bad to a woman. Theft held no attraction for me. I never longed to own something belonging to someone...

"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...

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

The first time in my life that I set eyes on a dead human being was a month ago in Toronto. Raymond’s wife had told me he was in the...

Tues 14th Dec 2021 Evelyn now used a walker. Holding on to it, she came to the door and there I stood. After not seeing her for about 2...

The festive season always causes my thoughts to return to Krugersdorp. For example, Easter brings me back to the Easter eggs, I loved so...

Leon's No News Bulletin 137 S. Africa is a vast country by any standards; 1,221,000 km2, approx 50,000,000 people and about the same...

I released the handbrake of the brand new Hudson. The sensation of holding the steering wheel, like dad, as the vehicle rolled backward,...

For man is a tree of the field. I walked away from my apartment, in the predawn darkness. I could pat myself on the back, because I had...

With the bamboo covering, my Succah was ready for guests. The list was very long, and they had been invited many centuries ago. The size...

Hebrew Teacher's Seminary The big white house, After failing at Wits university I enrolled in the Rabbi Zlotnik seminary for Hebrew...

Goodbye Cousin Mickey On the passing of my cousin Mickey 11th Sep 2021 We must have met often as children, but I don’t remember her from...

Confession of sins on the day of Atonement ווידוי ביום כפור Vidui b'yom kippur Atonement is therefore the way to happiness. But a man who...