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Guest Post: 10 Reasons To Visit Jericho
The food, the history, the people and the goats are some of the reasons you should visit Jericho some time very soon.
May 6, 2015 -
Yom Hazikaron – For Those We Mourn & Celebrate
This juxtaposition of one of the saddest days in the year to one of the most joyous days is difficult for many and yet makes sense since the way to truly appreciate the amazing fact that we have a state is by looking back at those who made it possible, like Akiva Levy, the Holocaust survivor, and thousands of others.
April 22, 2015 -
City of David – Of Kingdoms and Water – Part II
Entire kingdoms and stories are built around water sources. Where there’s water, there is potential for civilization. And so we headed down to see the Gihon Spring, the major water source in ancient Jerusalem, and hear how it was used and manipulated in order to win wars.
January 6, 2015 -
City of David – Of Kingdoms and Water – Part I
It was a cold and sunny winter’s day in December and it was a morning of storytelling – of King David’s conquest of what was then a Jebusite city, about how the Jebusites lived (how the women carried the water in jugs from the Gihon Spring), about the downfall of the Kingdom of Judah (fighting the Babylonians was a lost cause and Prophet Jeremiah said so), about King Hezekiah’s one last attempt, 2,700 years ago, to save his falling kingdom (it’s a miracle that they succeeded in creating a system to redirect the water into the walled city of the time) and more.
January 5, 2015
