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
My Experience Visiting The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel)
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
My Experience at Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel)
Whenever I make it back to Israel it's going to be for the sole purpose of going and spending another day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. After checking out of our hotel in Jerusalem and saying goodbye to our new Israeli friends, we got on the bus and drove to the outskirts of the city right on the edge of the Jerusalem Forest where Yad Vashem is located. The campus of Yad Vashem is pretty huge but the main building is pyramid shaped and you enter it by walking a bridge that slopes down into ... VIEW POST
The Truth About My Birthright Experience
All of us in the Golan Heights, February 2019 I’d been home from Birthright for a week when I started writing this. I hadn't really had a chance to process it yet. I’ve been jet lagged, back at work, and catching up with a few friends so really reflecting on this whole experience took a bit of a back seat. I know it sounds cliche but I really don’t know if I’ll ever have words that fully described my 8 day adventure in Israel. * I feel really, really (like REALLY) lucky with the group ... VIEW POST
