Archive | Israel Trip 2012

Almost everyone should be home by now, although who knows until we’re fully awake during normal hours *sigh*. As promised, here’s the photos that I took during the trip for folks to see/download. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbsoc/sets/72157629211803425/ If you would like to download any of the photo, find the photo you want, under the ‘actions‘ menu above the […]

Most of us are on the plane and we’re sad to leave but ready to get home. See you soon! Yes, you could legally call this an Israeli breakfast but it’s not quite the same as the ones from the hotel… UPDATE: We made it back home to LAX! Check back over the next week […]

Some of us are splitting off from here so it was time for our farewell meal: Lunch at Abou Lafia. They have a dairy/pastry location on the street but since we would be blocking traffic to have all of us standing and ordering our food we went into the larger restaurant across the street. I’m […]

Coupled with the early bedtime, we had a nice morning with a late wakeup and time for a relaxed breakfast. Some of us will be leaving for Eilat and Petra this afternoon but first we all went to the Ayolon institute – a secret munitions factory built before the war for independence. This amazing story […]

We had a few hours to relax after Jaffa and then Moti took us to a Progressive (Reform) Jewish synagogue outside of Tel Aviv where we were met by Rabbi Stacey Blank and her congregation who hosted us for a lovely Tu B’shvat Seder with the 4 fruits and 4 cups of wine. They were […]

I just realized that I have not let our readers see an example of the famous Israeli hotel breakfasts. I prefer the fruit myself but there is a large collection of baked goods and even different fish! After breakfast we went to the Yitzchak Rabin museum where we learned the history and events surrounding his […]

Skipping ahead for now – after the play (which i hope to write up soon) many of us went straight into the BlackOut dinner – after we ordered our food (or asked for the ‘surprise dinner’ as many of us at our table did). Then we are taken in to a completely dark room – […]

Even though it was already a long day, we had an exciting evening ahead of us. First was a performance at the Na’ laga’at theatre of “Not By Bread Alone” – a play by a group of deaf and blind performers. It was emotionally charged since we learned about their individual stories a well as […]

Another day of eating and enjoying some wines. One of my missions this summer was to find unique wineries that would appeal to not only the pallet of our TBS travelers, but also to fulfill the opportunity for our TBS travelers to meet and speak with individuals throughout the country. Our two main wineries, Na’aman, […]

I took the group that had had enough wine tasting (or just plain didn’t like wine as in my case) and went for a walk to the ‘midrachov’ or pedestrian mall in Zichron Ya’akov. No pictures here, but imagine a sloped pedestrian mall with boutique clothing, toy, and foodie stores. It was nice going to […]