Aliyah Blog 88: Gan HaShlosha Lake
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...
Category: Kosher Travel
Aliyah Blog 87: Gan Garoo (Parkaroo?)
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...
Aliyah Blog #86: “The Other Ein Gedi” (Nahal Arugot)
How I ended up there We purchased ceramic tile from a place called “Oz Kamerica” because even though Hebrew has an “s” sound, apparently someone at some point decided to transliterate the word with...
Aliyah Blog 84: Design Museum, Holon, IL
Museums in Israel Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world. They’re often in “bite size” pieces – you can spend about an hour or two in a museum dedicated...
Aliyah Entry 83: Citrus Orchard Museum, Rehovot
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...
Aliyah Blog 80: Sorek Estuary
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...
Aliyah Blog 78: (Separate) Beach Day
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...
Aliyah Diary 77: Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center
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...
Aliyah Blog 76: Christian Zionist Museum (Friends of Zion)
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...
Aliyah Blog 71: Museum of Islamic Art
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...