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How to Tell a Tell by Oded Borowski
Oded Borowski is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Archaeology and Hebrew at Emory University. He is the director of the Lahav Research...
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- Aug 17
- 1 min
Was this Gate built by King Solomon?
Archaeologists have uncovered a six-chambered gate with two towers at Hazor. Was it built by King Solomon? It is possibly dated to the...
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- Aug 17
- 1 min
James Michener's The Source -- Seeing a Tel
I had read James Michener's The Source during the summer between high school and college and enjoyed reading about a "tel", a large...
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- Aug 17
- 1 min
Tel Hazor National Park
Then James drove me to Hazor, a huge archeological site inhabited by numerous groups over many hundreds of years. The tel of Hazor is the...
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- Aug 17
- 1 min
Tzfat artist Avraham Loewenthal
My tour guide James McKeever introduced me to Avraham Loewenthal, a mystical artist in the Old City Artist Quarter of Tzfat. The Tzfat...
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- Aug 17
- 1 min
Sefat -- the City of Mysticism
On the first day of touring the Galilee with James, we started by driving to Sefat.
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- Aug 9
- 1 min
Kibbutz Ein Gev
Isn't this beautiful? At the beach. I went swimming in the Sea of Galilee. There were round rocks so I should have gone in with my...
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danaevankaplan
- Aug 9
- 1 min
Tour Guide James McKeever from Kibbutz Ein Gev
On July 17th, I took a bus from Jerusalem to Kibbutz Ein Gev. James met me on the road and helped me bring my suitcases into the Kibbutz,...
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- Aug 9
- 1 min
The Bibas Family
Hamas abducted the Israeli-Argentinian/Peruvian Bibas (Hebrew: ביבס) family from the Nir Oz kibbutz: 9-month-old Kfir (Hebrew: כפיר),...
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danaevankaplan
- Aug 9
- 1 min
The Hostages from the Kibbutz
Unfortunately, I had to look on the internet for information that I was expecting would have been provided as part of the tour....
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danaevankaplan
- Aug 9
- 1 min
Nir Oz Graphic Photos
Don't look if you are going to get upset.
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- Aug 9
- 1 min
Dark Tourism at Kibbutz Nir Oz
The Hartman Institute tiyul took us to Kibbutz Nir Oz. In the 7 October 2023 attack, Hamas killed or abducted many of the 427 residents...
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- Aug 9
- 1 min
Sun City temple slates interfaith class
Posted Thursday, August 8, 2024 5:00 am Temple Beth Shalom of the West Valley Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan will lead a four-part interfaith...
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- Aug 3
- 1 min
Robinson's Arch area
Robinson's Arch is the name given to a monumental staircase carried by an unusually wide stone arch, which once stood at the southwestern...
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