The Spring 2000 Temple Beth Am Israel trip
Led by our Rabbi, Jonathan Singer, our tour guide,
Zvi Levran, our incomparable bus driver Motti, we traveled around the
countryside of Israel for two weeks! This page describes the trip
from a chronological and geographical point of view. There are also
pages on
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The people
we met and the people we are.
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A lot of the discussions we had were political (or financial) in nature,
hence the politics
and money page.
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The Plants,
flowers and animals page.
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Judith is especially interested in geology and rocks, while I am interested
in geography. So, there is the landforms
page.
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In Israel, the national sport is archeology, and a lot of the interesting
things we saw are archeological in nature, and they are listed on the archeology
page.
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Israel is a Jewish State. However, Christianity and Islam also call
it home, so there is a religion
page; which is divided into an Orthodox
Judaism section, a Progressive
Judaism section, a Christian
section and a Moslem
section.
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Judith is a professional artist (someday, I will create some web pages
for her) and so there are
some works of art.
Note that some of the information falls into more than one category.
For example Charyl
Kay & Barry's play, set in Roman times, is about both religion
and archeology
and people.
Israel
Tel Aviv
Beit Daniel
The Museum of the Diaspora (28-Mar)
Jaffa
Caesarea
As we left Tel Aviv going north, Judith wrote in my notebook "Being
in Israel is such an awesome experience that I am enthralled, and have
a lump in my throat because of the feeling of being in this holy land.
The reason why this quote is noteworthy is that throughout our preparations,
Judith was scared of flying across water, was afraid Something Awful would
happen to us, felt it would cost too much, etc., etc.
Caesarea was King Herod's major sea port and a
large Roman theater.
Haifa
Isfiya
We ate lunch in the
Druze village of Isfiya.
Zippori
Kibbutz Kfar Blum
See also the sculpture
at Kfar Blum.
The
guest house where we stayed which was terrific.
Kibbutz Mosha 'av and the Lebanese border
Tel Dan
The Golan Heights and the border with Syria
Sefat
Jerusalem
The HolyLand Hotel model
of old Jerusalem.
Hebrew Union College (HUC).
The
Chagall Windows at Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem.
Archeology
Our trip
to the Spring of Gihon and Wilson's shaft, or how did David take Jersusalem,
really?
Masada
Jordan
Jeresh
Petra
Mt. Nebo
Things we did well and things we should do better next time.
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What wasn't so good |
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Going to Tel Aviv via Los Angeles (we should have gone to Copenhagen
or Zurich). The Spanish inquisition never discovered commercial jet
aircraft, for some reason |
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