Dana Evan Kaplan

After lunch, James drove us to the Korazim National Park, the site of an excavated ancient Jewish town, including a huge synagogue. ...

We had a delicious lunch at the Arab Israeli restaurant where I first tasted Amba. Amba is a tangy mango sauce of Baghdadi Indian Jewish...

Perhaps a century after Solomon’s rule, the Israelites built a massive shaft 130 feet deep into the tell, reaching the water table...

Oded Borowski is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Archaeology and Hebrew at Emory University. He is the director of the Lahav Research...

Archaeologists have uncovered a six-chambered gate with two towers at Hazor. Was it built by King Solomon? It is possibly dated to the...

I had read James Michener's The Source during the summer between high school and college and enjoyed reading about a "tel", a large...

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...

My tour guide James McKeever introduced me to Avraham Loewenthal, a mystical artist in the Old City Artist Quarter of Tzfat. The Tzfat...

On the first day of touring the Galilee with James, we started by driving to Sefat.

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...

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,...

Hamas abducted the Israeli-Argentinian/Peruvian Bibas (Hebrew: ביבס) family from the Nir Oz kibbutz: 9-month-old Kfir (Hebrew: כפיר),...

Unfortunately, I had to look on the internet for information that I was expecting would have been provided as part of the tour....

Don't look if you are going to get upset.

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...

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...