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4x4 on the Golan Heights

Over the weekend I decided to take my family on a short jeep tour and picnic by a spring on the southern part of the Golan Heights. We set out early and headed towards the Jordan Valley and continued…Read More

Days of Judgment

I’ve been asked to write a travel log that’s connected to Rosh Hashannah in some way. At first I thought I would tie it into walking through some off the beaten track trail with lots of pomegranates or apple…Read More

A Walk through an Old New Land Part 4 of 4

“If you will it, it is no dream.” – Theodore Herzl, from his book “Old New Land” published in 1902.

When guiding tours in English I always assume that my tourists know nothing of Israel or…Read More

A Walk Through an Old New Land Pt. 3

I used to wander around Neve Tzedek in the early 1990’s. The buildings were falling apart, the roads were riddled with potholes, but it still had that cultural feeling of the immigrants and the artists who lived among them…Read More

A Walk through an Old-New Land Part II

I admit it mom, as a boy I used to ride my bike to the train station in Ridgewood, New Jersey with friends and take the train into the city and hang out in Greenwich Village and Soho in…Read More

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