Lag b’ Omer
Lag b’ Omer can be a confusing holiday to those Jews and gentiles who live abroad and come to visit Israel during this time. A walk through any neighborhood will see children piling high stacks of wood scavenged from…Read More
Lag b’ Omer can be a confusing holiday to those Jews and gentiles who live abroad and come to visit Israel during this time. A walk through any neighborhood will see children piling high stacks of wood scavenged from…Read More
Since the whole Purim story actually happened in Persia (modern day Iran), there really isn’t anywhere to tour in Israel that is connected to Purim. Some might say that the “tombs” of Esther and Mordecai are situated in the…Read More
As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof knoweth it no more.
But the…Read More
More often than not, while wandering around the Old City of Jerusalem, eavesdropping on some of the tour guides, you can observe that some guides pronounce certain sites and places as being the place where "so and so" did…Read More
"Thy beauty, O Israel, upon thy high places is slain! How are the mighty fallen!" II Samuel 1:19.
There are a few passages in the Bible that can be quoted (and misquoted) by almost everyone because…Read More