Denver, Colorado – Kosher Vacation
Intro This is a guest post by Yehoshua Feigin. Usually considered a “fly-over state” by those of us who live in NY/NJ, Colorado has a remarkable amount of worthwhile things to do, see, and...
Category: Kosher Travel
Savannah, Georgia – Kosher Vacation
This is a fun one. Savannah is a little different than the usual places people go and that was why we went. It seems to be a “pass-thru” place for Jews to stop for...
Rosh HaNikra Grottoes and Nahariya
Some Intro to the Northwest Corner of Israel This trip takes you to the northern most Mediterranean coast of Israel to the Grottoes (a fancy word for ‘cave’) at Rosh HaNikra (meaning ‘head of...
Kosher Vacation in Dominican Republic – Revisited
Introduction In 2015 we went to Peurto Plata, Dominican Republic where there is a full time Rabbi supervising two kosher kitchens (dairy and meat) on a resort filled with beaches and pools. In 2019...
Eastern Long Island, Mystic, CT – Beaches and Car Ferr
A Vacation Based on Curiosity Did you ever wonder what’s at the very eastern tip of Long Island? What happens when you travel out the end of Queens, then Nassau County, past the cemeteries,...
Israel Separate Beaches
UPDATE 2025: There’s a newer article – note especially that women/men’s days have been standardized across beaches. Introduction to Israel’s Separate Beaches In the United States, we go to the beach before Memorial Day,...
After the Holocaust – Why Didn’t Jews Just Return to Europe? . . . and Yad V’Shem
A question in the back of my mind At Yad V’Shem, Israel’s primary holocaust museum in Jerusalem, I picked up a copy of “The Jews are Coming Back“, a book about the return of...
Israel: Nahal HaKibbutzim Water Hike in Beit Shean
This was easily one of my favorite days on my last trip to Israel. We were based out of Jerusalem and it was a very hot week so were looking for something to do...
Yeshiva Week Break – Kosher Hotel – Rocking Horse Ranch
One of the perks of being frum is that your kids are on a different schedule than the rest of the country. That means they typically have off from school the third week in...
Jerusalem Old City Panoramas and Other Photographs
Jerusalem Photographs Deviating from my usual posting style, this post is mostly about the pictures – of various places within and around the Old City (Ir atika) of Jerusalem. Until about the mid 1800s...