Galilee
- 5779, Amoraim, Annual Cycle, Bereshit, Comprehensive Exams, Creativity, Galilee, Growth, HUC, Jerusalem, Komps Kaos, Parsha, Rabbis, Second Temple Period, Tannaim, Torah, Yavne
Restart
Bereshit…that’s how we know it’s time to restart the Torah cycle, to begin a renewed year of growth, learning, and creating. This year already, I feel like I’ve needed several of them! Last…
- Agriculture, Archaeology, Beach, Dead Sea, Family, Galilee, Haifa, Hiking, IDF, Israel, Jerusalem, Museums, Music, Negev, Synagogues, Tel Aviv, Tel Gezer, Tel Hadid, Travel, Tzippori
Milk & Honey & Torah & Harvest
My family’s been in Israel long enough that I don’t remember a time when we weren’t wandering the trails through old crusader buildings, vineyards and olive groves, passing bus stops throughout our small…
- Archaeology, Galilee, Golan Heights, Hiking, HUC, Israel, Jerusalem, Kibbutz, Museums, Shabbat, Synagogues, Talmud, Tel Aviv, Tel Dan
Getting Into Digging
Tuesday morning, 5 July, we met our professor and tour guide at HUC. From there we drove to Ramla, considered by several people the most important medieval Islamic site. We climbed a huge…
- Abraham, Archaeology, Carmel, Dead Sea, Ein Hod, Galilee, Haifa, HUC, Israel, Jerusalem, Mamshit, Mediterranean Sea, Mosaics, Museums, Negev, Second Temple Period, Synagogues, Temple Mount, Zipper
From the Mountains to Below the Sea (Level) // From the South to the North
Saturday was a nice Shabbat in Jerusalem. I spent the morning at Landwer’s Cafe with shakshuka, a mocha, and S.Y. Agnon’s short stories. In the afternoon we visited my professor’s apartment for a…