Thoughts – Page 2 – Israel by Leiah

Sirens

Today, Israel stopped for 2 minutes for a siren. Every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, sirens sound at 10:00 a.m. Cars on the roads pull…

I surf and contribute to a lot of facebook groups, mostly having to do with Israel and touring in Israel. And I am tired of…

In my family, we hitchhike. In my family, we pick up hitchhikers. We ask for and receive help from random people we meet. We belong…

We are coming up to the holiday of Passover. And it occurs to me that my life over the last few years has a lot…

I had an interesting experience today. On the urging of a fellow tour guide, Asaf and I went to a used book sale. One of the used…

Words are important. When I am examining an issue, one of the first lines of clarification is, "What do the terms mean?" I don't know…

"My servant, Moses, is dead. Prepare to cross the Jordan, together with all this people, into the land that I am giving to Bnei Israel." …

"Ani iparon tov." "I am a good pencil." The story goes that one day a new immigrant to Israel, Shlomo, was pulled over by the…

This morning I noticed a cup which I hardly ever use on my kitchen counter. There is nothing outwardly special about this cup. It is one…

The holiday of Passover approaches. You can feel it in the hot bursts of spring air - sharav as it is called in modern parlance…