Into the Judean Wilderness

Today's journey was a new one for us all. We loaded up and headed out at 8:00am with Timna on our radar. Since dropping south from Bet She'an a couple days ago, we've been in barren desert! We saw it in the lower half of the Jordan River Valley and around the Dead Sea. Barrenness …

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Closing Out the Feast of Tabernacles

The Feast of Tabernacles, known in Hebrew as "Sukkot," is a glorious feast of great celebration. The feast technically ends today, though there is a "bonus day" which we will describe tomorrow. However, as we say goodbye to the most joyous feast of the 7, let's turn to Amir Tsarfati to put all the pieces …

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Day 1 at Shiloh and Elsewhere

Welcome back friends! If you're new here, you will find us in the middle of an Israel tour rewind. Unfortunately, our actual tour that was scheduled to launch last Saturday was cancelled due to the war in Israel. Many of us are longing to be there, so we're doing the next best thing: reliving the …

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Route 60: The Biblical Highway

Honestly, I'm a "one-movie-per-year" kinda girl! But, after seeing Golda, the docu-drama about Israel's first and only female Prime Minister who guided Israel through the Yom Kippur War in 1973, I'm headed back to the theater for another Israel-centric movie next week. Former US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman (who I very much admire), has …

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