Jerusalem Walks Leon's Walks

The angel of the Lord stops the hand of Abraham from sacrificing his son. From a mosaic in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The...

Attacks on people,absolutely unknown to the attacker can have only one cause, namely, the mental state of the attacker. It’s clear to me...

Leon’s No Newsletter No 248 Yom Kippur 5780 9th Oct. 2019 Turning over a new leaf Waiting for the 77a (mysteriously Egged scrapped the...

250 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel; 1-year-old child among those killed in retaliatory airstrikes This is so disgusting, that it’s...

In my opinion Islam is a monotheistic religion, just as Judaism and Christianity are monotheistic religions, for the following reasons: ...

Expulsion or exodus Jews departing, voluntarily, from a country en masse? Who ever heard of such a thing. Throughout history we have...

Notre Dame Fire A natural catastrophe, like an earthquake or a flood. Nothing more and nothing less. Nature and God aren’t going to take...

The origins of antisemitism. One of the most puzzling phenomena is how antisemitism is most prevalent among people of color, as in SA and...

One can only appreciate the name, Vanishing Valley, by going there, carefully, because it starts out at the top of the Barkan, one of the...

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

Ruins of villages, inhabited in Biblical times, by farmers in the Lowland of Judea

Jesus' suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus presents the world with a new idea, the need to lose the body in order to bring salv

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 the Jewish Calendar, we are now in the period known as the three weeks of mourning for the destruction of the Temple (The...

The importance of celebrating festivals. Be joyful at your festival--you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the...

Hafez Haim is the name of a kibbutz, in the Lowland of Israel (the Shefela), a beautiful, flat, comparatively high rainfall area (700...

It gives me great pleasure to wish all Christians a Merry Christmas. BUT Being a Jew, who feels happiness for Christians celebrating the...

Leon’s No Newsletter 245 Thu 14th Dec 2017 Arabs don't scare me anymore. Although I emigrated to Israel in 1976, at the age of 36, the...

Leon’s No Newsletter 244 Thu 23rd Nov 2017 Family Togetherness Jerusalem, where I live, is not only far, geographically, from S.Africa,...

Leon’s no Newsletter 243 USA withdrawal from UNESCO Jerusalem Tuesday 31st Oct 2017 A few weeks ago the USA declared it’s intention to...