Tel Aviv
- Emanuel Ringelblum, Holocaust, Israel, Lviv, Oyneg Shabes, Poland, Soup Kitchen, Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Women's History Month, Yad Vashem, Yiddish Women Writers, YIVO, Yizkor, Zionist, רחל אוירבך
Witnessing & Witnesses (Women’s History Day Five)
Carrying the weight of cultural remnants from the time before and during the Shoah, Rokhl Oyerbakh was one of three members of the oyneg shabes who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Before the…
- Belarus, Fiction, Forverts, Immigration, Israel, Kadya Molodowsky, Mameloshn, Poetry, Tel Aviv, Women's History Month, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers, YIVO, קאַדיע מאָלאָדאָװסקי
Immigrant, Multiplied (Women’s History Day Two)
My friends know that I’m not someone who regularly listens to podcasts – until my harbour walks during the pandemic led me to find a new friend, and a way to learn much…
- 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…
- Academia, Archaeology, Bible, Creativity, Dreams, Family, Friends, Haifa, Homeland, HUC, Israel, Jerusalem, Midrash, Mishnah, PhD, Talmud, Tel Aviv, Tel Dan, Tel Gezer, Travel
Back to the Land
A short update from a long year (hence the void of posts – sometime I will get through a full Torah cycle): In a week, I will have completed my Ph.D. coursework. How…
- Archaeology, Bagels, Beach, Cincinnati, HUC, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish Food, Kibbutz, Museums, Music, New York, Shabbat, Shakshuka, Synagogues, Tel Aviv, Tel Dan, Travel
If Dan’s Walls Could Talk…
The last two weeks of our Tel Dan dig brought many new faces and the quick removal of a lot more dirt in Area T1 (near the High Place, where I was working).…
- 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…
- Archaeology, Family, German Colony, History, HUC, Hummus, Jerusalem, Machane Yehudah, Museums, Old City, Shabbat, Shakshuka, Shul, Tachanah, Tel Aviv
Shabbat in Jerusalem (x2)
Yeah, yeah, I know – it’s been too long. While my dad and sister were here, I let them take the pictures and post the detailed blogs. My sister’s picture are on Facebook.…
- Archaeology, Coffee, Family, Ice Cream, Israel, Jaffa, Jewish Food, JNF, Mediterranean Sea, Museums, NYC, Parks, Rothschild, Shabbat, Summer, Tel Aviv
Tel Avivin’ and Beachin’
***For more pictures, visit my dad’s blog or my sister’s blog!*** Tonight was our third in Tel Aviv. Sarah has finished her dig and videoing at Tel Gezer, and my dad and I…