Category: Kosher Travel

Introduction Readership is going down lately as I become more normalized and less, “what on earth is going on here” to my new surroundings. Now it just feels normal to find something completely different...

Introduction Though hard to believe, I’ve read it and heard it enough times to believe that during most all of the year, this place is completely dry: Does that look dry to you? What...

Barely Relevant Information Says this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Fb-SJ9v0M – I’m the type of person who likes experiences over group activities. Rather than being the type who feels some sort of connection to guys running...

Comparisons You could find something like this in America, though Israel is so much more condensed that you can find it all nearby. Plus, the general population in America isn’t necessarily the most smiley...

Heichal HaTarbut – cultural centers If you’re going to do Hellenism the night after Chanukah ends, do it right. Twelve ‘international’ pianists were on stage playing together with distinctly Israeli names. Some of them...

Traveling on Chanukah “Countdown until self-destruction: 10, 9, 8, 7, 5 …” “What happened to 6?” “Just kidding … 6, 5 …” I skipped from 91 to 93 in the last blog entry so...

The plan On a very rainy day, I searched for an indoor activity for my I-try-to-go-somewhere-new-one-a-week trip. That landed me at the Ilana Goor museum in Jaffa … I was supposed to go to...

Expectations Traveling here, I ended up preferring my side-trip to the neighboring Gan Garoo. My expectations were higher than reality … which is rare in Israel. It’s a nice lake, sure – and there...

A kangaroo zoo in Israel? This is the third time I meant to go to one place and ended up at another. Actually, I went to both places … Gan Sacne, for a future...