Tag: synagogue

All You Want to Know About Machane Yehuda - Part 7: What's In the Shuk?

All You Want to Know About Machane Yehuda – Part 7: What’s In the Shuk?

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Click Here for Part 6 of “All You Want to Know About Machane Yehuda” Now that you’ve all seen my map of every shop in Machane Yehuda Market, it is time for me to use that map to highlight all of the wonderful, the surprising, the delicious and the downright strange things that you can Read More

Israel: Land of Diversity

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I just finished guiding an American family for the past two weeks, and we traveled all over Israel. We left out the Negev (south) because it is too hot in the middle of August, but beyond that, we pretty much hit the rest of the country and got at least a taste of all of Read More

Walking in a Byzantine-Era Synagogue

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Almost anyone who has traveled throughout the north of Israel, especially if you have gone with a tour guide who took you to places you might not have visited on your own, has seen the ruins of Byzantine-era synagogues. There are many, with some of the more famous or impressive ones found at Bar’am, Tiberias Read More

ONLY in Israel – Top 5

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Frequently, you hear people comment “Only in Israel,” in response to various things they overhear or see here. Often, it is meant to try to capture some of the unique aspects of the character of the Israeli people. But as we all know, these things don’t only happen in Israel, even if they are somewhat Read More

Israel Mystery Photo #15

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I am truly in full-on study mode now, with my written licensing exam in exactly a month. So my next post after this will likely be Part 3 of my series about the exams, in which I will tell you how I’ve been going about studying/preparing for the exam. But first, I need to address Read More