One year ago today I was driving back and forth to the Dead Sea with Nick and our friend Kate. My time in Israel was down to one-day-left and I was running around Tel Aviv trying to see everything I could before I flew home. In honor of that, I thought I'd post a little round-up of blog posts that I wrote about Israel, in case you have a trip coming up! The Things I Did: The Israel Museum The Best Bar in Jerusalem My Experience at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Why You Should ... VIEW POST
Looking Backing: A Solo Traveler’s Experience on Birthright in Israel
My Experience Visiting The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel)
Do you want to know what the perfect thing is to do on the Saturday of Shabbat while you're in town visiting Jerusalem? Get yourself down to The Israel Museum which is conveniently located about a 30-minute walk from the city center. I really thought it'd be a museum about the history of Israel but it's not. It's more of an art museum and an archeological one, whose main attraction is the famed Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves in the Judean Desert and they are the ... VIEW POST
Read This Before Going to Israel in February
When I wrote about going to the Dead Sea I talked about how my travel mates and I all expected Israel to be one water-deprived desert and how shocked we were to find that it was the exact opposite in most places (think lush green grasses and forests). Do you know what most of us also underestimated? The fucking weather. Spoiler Alert: It will be chilly and you will need a jacket and closed-toe shoes. We expected sun and heat. Basically, weather that accommodated shorts and tank tops. As ... VIEW POST
The BEST Bar in Jerusalem (aka Where to Spend Shabbat in Jerusalem)
I’d like to start this post by admitting that no, I did not, in fact, visit every single bar in Jerusalem to determine which one was *the best*. In fact, I went to hardly any bars because so many of them were Irish pubs and others were packed with douchey tourists. Being that I was visiting the Middle East for what might be the only time ever, I was not going to step a fucking foot into a faux Irish pub unless there was a gun pointed at my head. But I did do some Googling and Yelp’ing and I ... VIEW POST
I Was a Bad Jew at the Western Wall (Jerusalem, Israel)
I did a lot of Googling articles about Birthright before I went on the trip. I was trying to see what skeptics said or what the trip was like in general, since they give you very little information beforehand. I also wanted to see what skeptical participants said. I found one article from Gawker or Jezebel and that was written by a skeptic who had a profoundly emotional reaction to being at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Cool, I thought, that’ll probably be me. At least I hoped. We went to ... VIEW POST
8 Steps For When Your Bag Gets Unexpectedly Checked
I always pack for trips in a carry on size bag. I’ve written about what I pack and why I pack lightly in a plethora of past posts, so you know by now that I’m a fan and I’d rather forgot an item or two than have to check my luggage. So, I was gutted when El Al told me on my way to Israel in February that I needed to check my little rolling bag. I guess they didn’t believe that I’d packed my bag and that it’d been with me the entire ride to the airport. Side note: El Al’s security checks are ... VIEW POST
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