Galilee Diary: Syzygy
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and stars that You set in place, what is man that You have been mindful of him, mortal man that You have taken note of him? -Psalms 8:4-5
Jews Eating Well - Not as Obvious as it May Seem!
Galilee Diary: Sunflowers
The sea of grain is waving
The song of the flock rings out
This is myland and its fields
This is the Jezreel Valley
May my land be blessedand praised
From Bet Alfa to Nahalal.
-from "The Song of theValley," Nathan Alterman, 1935
Israel, Up Close and Personal
Shortly after arriving in Israel a few weeks back, I had the privilege of welcoming a few busloads of our teens to Jerusalem.
Galilee Diary: Access
You shall not insult the deaf, or place a stumbling block before the blind. You shall fear your God: I am the Lord. -Leviticus 19:14
Book Discussion: Day After Night
The English essayist and poet Alexander Pope wrote, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast..." That adage is challenged by the four protagonists in Anita Diamant's book, Day After Night.
Book Discussion: America's Prophet
In his previous books Walking the Bible and Where God was Born Bruce Feiler took the reader on journeys primarily through the ancient Middle East. America's Prophet, his most current book, leaps ahead several thousand years and thousands of miles.
Hamantaschen Test Kitchen: Gluten-Free
My family is not gluten-free. But we have several close friends who are. So when I posted earlier this month that I'd be starting my hamantaschen baking, one of those friends asked if I'd be making any gluten-free delicacies. Um, no.
Galilee Diary: Whose wall?
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: Saturday night
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)