Category: Kosher Travel

Pre-Game Pain After my Israeli dental insurance hygienist visit, my teeth were like sandpaper. As it’s the same price as a private dentist and two separate appointments have to be made, it’s private dentist...

Estuary: where a freshwater body of water meets the ocean and the water mixes. Israel has … none, according to any tourist website I’ve seen. So far, I’ve found two. The Yarkon river in...

Sun, Tue, Thurs for women; Mon, Wed, Fri for men One of my most popular articles in this blog of all time is titled Israel Separate Beaches written years ago. It’s #1 on Google...

Where has this museum been all my life? This museum is about a continuous 3,000+ year old Jewish community referenced in the Bible – which is, in turn, referenced in Babylonian artifacts, and which...

Introduction I’m getting behind on diary entries about museums, having visited one last week and two this week and still haven’t gotten to write about an event in the desert in the summer. Israel...

Introduction My rabidly left of the intersection self-hating Jewish political science professor in college had only one good thing to say about Israel: there’s a museum of Islamic Art in the Jewish half of...

Chaim Weizmann Short Biography Chaim Weizman, the first president of Israel (not prime minister) exchanged knowledge of acetone production for the Balfour Declaration. The British Empire could continue to make munitions when most of...

Introduction to Kiryat Anavim Kiryat Anavim is a secular Zionist dream – started as a kibbutz in 1918 by Jews from Ukraine on a Judean hill close to Jerusalem, they cleared the land away...

Introduction A long-time reader of my blog suggested I check out Hezekiah’s Tunnels … this is another case of “not at all what I thought it was“. If you haven’t gone and want everything...