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leon gork tour guide
Oct 19, 20203 min read
Killer and the Birds
Birds would fly over Poyer’s house driving Killer, the Alsatian crazy with desire to catch one. Now and again a daring bird flew too low and
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leon gork tour guide
Oct 17, 20203 min read
The Loyal Friend
The old horse turned his head to the scratching noise that came from the stable door. This was the sign he'd been waiting for. He nudged the
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leon gork tour guide
Oct 14, 20203 min read
Ma and Pa
Bring your arithmetic homework, Ma ordered
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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
Aug 10, 20202 min read
The Sportfield
5 times round the rugby field." ordered Mr.Schnell, Mr. fast, a suitable name for that impressive, tall, scrawny man, with blond hair.
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 7, 20203 min read
My Bar-Mitzvah
Every Jewish boy has one, but I was scared as hell my parents expected me to have a barmitzvah.
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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
Jul 27, 20203 min read
The Tramp of Krugersdorp
The only way to cross the narrow stream, flowing in a deep gorge, was by means of a wooden bridge. On the other side a path led through a br
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 19, 20203 min read
The Convent.
My young nanny came fresh from the kraal, to work for my mother, looking after me and raising me, as she would her own child.
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 19, 20203 min read
The Wall
A high white plastered wall protected our house from the service lane, where undesirable characters used to meet and plan diabolical schemes
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 1, 20202 min read
The Typewriter
The typewriter The typewriter Her pale blue skirt, wrapped around the outline of a shapely thigh. Thora banged on the black Remington...
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leon gork tour guide
May 19, 20202 min read
The Holy Sepulchre - A Jewish View
Visitors don't really come to see the church, but to gape at the tomb inside. Some fall to their knees. In the shopping mall or the...
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leon gork tour guide
Apr 20, 20202 min read
The Origin of Antisemitism
As usual the celebration of Passover, lead me to once again consider the Exodus, it’s causes and it’s meaning for our time. With this...
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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 tour guide
Feb 24, 20201 min read
Plants in the Negev after the rain
Some pictures, I took of plants in the Negev desert and some bits of information about them.
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leon gork tour guide
Feb 11, 20201 min read
Jerusalem by Night
The way I take photos, requires swift and agile finger work; adjusting the time, the aperture and what not. So, the freezing evening...
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leon gork tour guide
Jan 20, 20203 min read
The 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
On this auspicious occasion, leaders of the world are arriving to celebrate, but they are also going to discuss the problem of...
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leon gork tour guide
Jan 5, 20203 min read
Usurping Jewish Holy Places
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...
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leon gork tour guide
Dec 29, 20192 min read
The new atom bomb
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...
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leon gork tour guide
Oct 13, 20195 min read
Yom Kippur 5780
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...
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