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leon gork tour guide
Nov 10, 20242 min read
Understand the Arab Israel Conflict
Israel and Arabs
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 29, 20243 min read
Christian love of Israel
This is a copy of a letter sent to a Christian friend who loves Israel. I think it could be written to all Christians who love Israel, so...
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 9, 20242 min read
News Commentary
Friday 8th August 2024 American arms embargo is nothing new. It's been going on since the first war that Israel has fought against the...
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leon gork tour guide
Jun 22, 20247 min read
Family story Part 1
A Jewish family leaves Zarasai, where their ancestors lived for one hundred years, to settle in Asveja and later to South Africa
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leon gork tour guide
Feb 1, 20232 min read
Ecce Homo Arch
Hadrian’s building operations in Jerusalem. The Ecce Homo Arch forms the 2nd station of the Cross, commemorating the site where Pontius...
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leon gork tour guide
Feb 1, 20231 min read
The Wailing Wall
The Jewish religion does not leave the two important activities in life, mourning or wailing and rejoicing to chance. The fact is that...
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leon gork tour guide
Jan 31, 20234 min read
The Spread of Christianity.
The expansion of Christianity was not simply an example of another successful cult within the Graeco-Roman world, but a development that...
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leon gork tour guide
Oct 22, 20225 min read
My Father's Story
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...
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leon gork tour guide
May 27, 20224 min read
Back to school
"Put your child back in school", my old uncle Louie, looking through half-shut eyes, filled with smoke, hurled this command, at his...
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 4, 20222 min read
Krugersdorp Jews
David Super calls himself Dovid, the way David is pronounced in Yiddish, the language spoken in Eastern Europe, where Jews had lived for...
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leon gork tour guide
Sep 4, 20212 min read
Happy New Year
The History of Prayer God is attentive to the prayers of the weak and downcast, especially on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, according to...
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 22, 20211 min read
Poem by Hanah Senesch
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. ,אַשְׁרֵיהַגַּפְרוּרשֶׁנִּשְׂרַףוְהִצִּיתלֶהָבוֹת Blessed is the flame that burns in the...
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 11, 20211 min read
The Festival of Tisha B'Av
The month of Av is the saddest month of the Jewish year.When the temple was destroyed on the 9th of Av.Which works out to Sunday 18th...
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leon gork tour guide
May 17, 20212 min read
Lag B'Omer 2021
Noga and Etti screamed with delight at the sight of the bonfires all over the city. The people were celebrating Lag B’Omer. Singing and...
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leon gork tour guide
Apr 30, 20212 min read
Lag B'Omer
Noga and Etti screamed with delight at the sight of the bonfires all over the city. The people were celebrating Lag B’Omer. Singing and...
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leon gork tour guide
Nov 21, 20205 min read
Petah Tikvah Memorial Park
Bring me Cappuccino (hafuch in Hebrew). He lowered his mask, put the opening of the cover to his lips, no coffee came out.
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leon gork tour guide
Oct 14, 202016 min read
Manke Leaves Poswil
Manke, his student cap on his head, on his way to Heder, looked into the stable watching how Scholem struggled, pulling the animal this way
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 28, 20202 min read
Tisha B'Av 5780
2000 years have passed since the destruction of the Jewish temple and they continue to lament But is this because of its loss.
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leon gork tour guide
Apr 20, 20203 min read
God and Man
In the Bible, which is a very wise book, there’s a strange story about God (in the form of a man) picking a fight with Jacob. Clearly God wa
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Leon Gork Jerusalem
Mar 16, 20192 min read
Purim
A certain rabbi of the Talmud, of 1500 years ago suggests an apparently strange way of celebrating the salvation of the Jews from the...
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