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Beer, Wine, and Munchies at Gush Etzion
Lone Tree Brewery beers are produced in a small facility in Gush Etzion. I had tasted them at the national beer event in Tel Aviv last winter, and like them very much. So when brewmaster David Shire...
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August Travels In the Galilee
August has been a month of short trips away from home. To Tsfat, visiting many good friends there. To Acco (Acre), where I wandered through layers of history at the Crusader Fortress. To Rosh Pina,...
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Welcome to Agripas Street, Jerusalem
Going to Jerusalem? Shlep up Agripas street towards shuk Machaneh Yehudah, and your eyes are immediately drawn to this mural. Don’t you love how the painted sky in the arch exactly matches the real...
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Wandering Through Israel on Passover
Passover travels have already receded into memories, but that’s what photos are for – to make those past moments live again. So have a look at some of the things I saw this spring in Israel. Tel Aviv...
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Keeping Kosher in a Stampede
The Stampede festival in Calgary, Canada, that is. Every July the entire city of Calgary takes a ten-day vacation from ordinary life and transforms itself into the Wild West. Putting aside mundane...
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So, Where Have I Been?
Reader, it’s been too long. Don’t think I’ve forgotten you. It’s just been….life. Soon after my return from Canada, my husband became seriously ill, with hospitalization, medication, aggravation – the...
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Before Yom Kippur, Do A Good Deed
This post is not about food that you and I are going to eat. Although, it is about food – and electricity, and basic things like toilet paper – for HaBayit Shel Susan, a job training center in...
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Jerusalem On A Chilly Day
Why did I shlep my family away from warm Petach Tikvah to trawl grey, windy Jerusalem on a December day? All the Jerusalemites were hurrying their errands along, anxious to get off the chilly streets...
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A Day Eating With The Druze
I travel to the north several times a year. As the bus rolls up the country, I’ve looked at the Arab and Druze villages covering the Galilee hills and wondered about the people; how they live, what...
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Olive Branch Festival In The Galilee 2013
The Israel Olive Branch Festival occurs in October-November each year and extends from the Negev to the Galilee. I joined a tour to one of the Druze festival sites in the Upper Galilee, hoping to...
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