Jerusalem

The (com)Promised Land Dispatch 5: Kingdoms of Sand and Stone

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 03:31:49 +0000

I'll tell you what I love. I love standing in the dusty no-man's-land between two borders, feeling the wind blow and reading signs in two languages. Behind me, the high, tight fences and ironic...

I Never Got Used To The Guns

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:03:54 +0000

It seems that every time you turn around in Israel you seem someone with a gun. In a crowded restaurant I had to ask a man to move his gun so I could sit in the seat beside him.

The(com)Promised Land

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 23:57:21 +0000

Join travel writer Jeff Greenwald, the author of Shopping for Buddhas , The Size of the World , and Scratching the Surface , on his first trip to Israel. The (com)Promised Land: Dispatches from Israel...

The (com)Promised Land: Dispatches from Israel & Beyond

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:41:53 +0000

Join travel writer Jeff Greenwald, the author of Shopping for Buddhas , The Size of the World , and Scratching the Surface , on his first trip to Israel. These real-time dispatches, sponsored by...

The(com)Promised Land Dispatch 3: Shabbat in Jerusalem - Of Wine and Walls

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:02:43 +0000

I found the 8.5 x 11" poster on a stack inside the Jewish Student Information Center. A crude photocopy, in black and white, it showed a scene from Seinfeld, with Kramer leaning hilariously into the...

The(com)Promised Land Dispatch 4: Wall-Eyed

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:17:49 +0000

Damascus Gate was nearly empty at 9 a.m., the sun leaning lightly on the flagstones of East Jerusalem. I bought the Herald Tribune and read about Mars, waiting for the woman who would be my liaison in...

Destination: Israel

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:56:33 +0000

Dear Cyberpals, In 1994, to celebrate my 40th birthday, I circumambulated the globe without the benefit of airplanes. During that 9-month, 29,157-mile odyssey, I became the first travel writer to...

The(com)Promised Land Dispatch 2: City of Gold and Tears

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:13:04 +0000

People streaming in both directions, as the sun falls behind the King David and my beer catches the last touch of dusk light. It's an extraordinary place to sit, watching the Hassids in their felt and...

The(com)Promised Land Dispatch 1: Tel Aviv

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:00:13 +0000

23 February 2004 / Heathrow To A Scary Place A deep and scary place, Israel. It seems almost unsurprising that, on the Piccadilly line on the way to London Heathrow, I spied the headline on the first...

WoW - Women at the Wall

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:40:06 +0000

Jewish women risk arrest, insults to pray at the Western Wall, the holiest place in Judaism...

Israel on the Web

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:36:01 +0000

CIA World Factbook . On 24 June 2002, President Bush laid out a "road map" for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This site is full of facts such as this, mixed with key data about the...