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leon gork tour guide
Oct 27, 20146 min read
Newsletter 219: A feast of Passions
Shalom dear friends, I love learning new things, especially new words, but what use are they if I can’t recall them easily and quickly....
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leon gork tour guide
Oct 8, 20149 min read
Newsletter 218: The Message of Succot
Dear Friends Shalom, 40 Years the Children of Israel wandered in the wilderness without a permanent place to live. They lived in...
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leon gork tour guide
Sep 30, 20145 min read
Newsletter 217: Builders and Destroyers
It didn’t matter where I went on Rosh Hashanah as long as I was spending time with my kids, by this I mean my grandkids, although I’m...
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leon gork tour guide
Sep 24, 20143 min read
Newsletter 216: Shanah Tova 5775
Shalom friends, The New Year is upon us. There is no escaping the feeling of excitement that it brings. No matter how many new years I...
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leon gork tour guide
Sep 12, 20146 min read
Newsletter 215: After the War
Shalom friends, Nothing happens without rhyme or reason; the Palestinians have theirs and and we have ours. The Palestinians see Shederot...
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 14, 20146 min read
Newsletter 214: Jews, Christians, Moslems and God
This is an open letter to my friends Esther, Mary, Jo, Rykie and many others like them who through all the years of my guiding have come...
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 4, 20146 min read
Newsletter 213: Enemies who rise up against you. (Deu 28:7)
I turned the key, got on my bicycle, turned the handle and the little electric motor on the front wheel pulled me up the hill with just a...
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 12, 20146 min read
Newsletter 212: Things that nobody talks about
I just thought of an alternative name for my no newsletter; “Things that nobody talks about”. While sitting on my balcony, early in the...
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leon gork tour guide
Jun 19, 20145 min read
Leon's No Newsletter 211
A world full of action Even though I call this a no newsletter, I admit that it is a record of my experiences and where possible, the...
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leon gork tour guide
May 31, 20147 min read
Leon's No newsletter 210
His loving kindness endures forever They had arrived the day before and had spent a night in the Ruth Daniel Hotel in Jaffa, where I...
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 8, 20144 min read
Leon's No Newsletter 209
The secret of optimism Dear friends, At long last I’m in a position and mood to write a no newsletter. Unfortunately I’ve been in...
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leon gork tour guide
Dec 30, 20132 min read
Leon's No Newsletter 208
Happy New Year for 2014 I’m writing this no newsletter to wish you a happy New Year. You can acquire happiness in many ways, beautiful...
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leon gork tour guide
Jun 17, 20084 min read
Newsletter 79 A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey
A few Saturdays ago I took a family for a walking tour of the Old City. We started at 5 in the afternoon after the heat of the day had...
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Leon Gork Jerusalem
Mar 1, 20084 min read
Leon's No Newsletter 73 Touring in the snow.
Last Sunday I went for an echo examination of my heart. I heard it beating and felt comforted. I took Ettie's car for a test that is...
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leon gork tour guide
Feb 7, 20084 min read
Leon's No News Bulletin 70 Secular Judaism
Shalom everyone, To the glee of the media the snow last week kept the citizens of Israel glued to their TV's when they should have had...
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leon gork tour guide
Jan 29, 20084 min read
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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leon gork tour guide
Jan 19, 20083 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...
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leon gork tour guide
Jan 9, 20084 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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leon gork tour guide
Jan 3, 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...
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leon gork tour guide
Dec 25, 20074 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...
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