Travel and Food

Shelter helps legal migrants reach their sponsors

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I have had the privilege over the years of interviewing many Survivors about their experiences during the Holocaust.  After doing a number of these interviews, I noticed a pattern.  When they were recounting for me all the horrible things that had happened to them and their families […]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

Touring Israel’s Jordan Valley and the Galilee

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics isn’t going anywhere for several more weeks. Officials are busy with the ceremonies for Holocaust Memorial Day, then Memorial Day, and Independence Day. And meanwhile, the various parties likely to be in the government coalition are making extraordinary demands. Those may be whittled down as Bibi reaches the four

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Middle East, Travel and Food

Israel’s Tourism Triumph, Part III

Please click on Number for previous installments:  1, 2 The Crazy Restaurant Scene (c) Edwin Black TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s adversaries in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement [BDS] thought they could starve Israel through economic warfare that included even its food sector. Many remember the BDS furor over SodaStream, Sabra hummus, ordinary fruits

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Edwin Black, Middle East, Travel and Food

Local Chabad rabbis to attend National Prayer Fete

By Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — I just returned from an evening spent with my colleague, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. Although wounded on Saturday, he was up late fielding phone calls, making plans, and sitting with some old colleagues (one of whom is me). Rabbi Goldstein stared death in the face; the rifle of the

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Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi