Dana Evan Kaplan

Rabbi Donniel Hartman Spoke on Zionism and Power this morning. As with the other lectures, the institute provided us with a folder filled...

The theme of the Rabbinic Torah Seminar for Summer 2022 is Overcoming the Moral Status Quo: A Torah of Human Agency The Shalom Hartman...

I am staying in an Airbnb in Jaffa until tomorrow. I visited the Shuk HaPishpishim, the flea market. I found an old Israeli telephone...

We reached the Lebanese border. From the Galil Mountain Winery, you can see the border. The Israeli border base is straight ahead. In the...

Today -- Monday June 20th 2022 -- we went hiking in The Nahal Kaziv and Monfort Fortress trail. In Hebrew, נחל כזיב ומבצר מונפורט. After...

Jerusalem was much as I remembered it. We took the tram which was also fast and comfortable. From the central train station it was two...

Here's the view from the porch at 6:25 a.m. looking Northeast. On Monday, I was given a private tour of Neve Zedek and Jaffa. We walked...

I will be spending 2 weeks studying at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem but I wanted to go early in my trip to see the holy city. Going...

I was hoping for my first falafel in Israel in 28 years but I was convinced to try Sabich instead. I was very happy with that decision....

My first night in Tel Aviv. After a delicious dinner of Couscous, I walked around for a few hours. I saw the Dizengoff and the Gordon...

My friend Lonnie dropped me off at Newark airport for my flight to Tel Aviv. This will be my first time in Israel in many many years and...

It was a wonderful Shabbat with the induction of several new board members, special prayers in celebration of Shavuot, and the reading...

Thanks to Denny for these photos. Steve, Bob, Dave and others helped to restore our flag before the service. Steve rented a lift to help...

Rabbi Binyamin (Benny) Minich of Beit Daniel Yaffa sent me this photo from our rabbinical school years in the early 1990s.

Steve organized a lift from Home Depot to replace our American flag in time for Memorial Day. Thanks to Dave for his technical expertise....

In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is tomorrow, I am posting this interview with the descendants of Itzhak...

About a month ago, I went on a short get-away to Mazatlan, Mexico. One of the highlights was a mountain biking tour with Rudy Valdez. I...

Using “The Bible Now” by Richard Elliot Friedman and Shawna Dolansky as a reference, Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan, Ph.D., will show...