Sometime just after college, I spent six weeks backpacking around Israel on my own. I didn’t have any itinerary, and at some point found myself in Tzfat, a northern hilltop town where a number of important Kabbalistic thinkers and...
Ein Gedi, Masada and the Dead Sea
Heat was going to be our big challenge: temperatures in the area were climbing into the mid-90’s by late morning, and that was more than Zevin could tolerate, even had he not been recuperating from being sick. Fortunately, we...
Kibbutz Ein Gedi
Early Tuesday morning, we picked up our Budget rent-a-car and waved goodbye to the Holy City of Jerusalem, making our way east and south down to Ein Gedi, an oasis on the shore of the Dead Sea. We arrived...
All Humans Made It to Israel
Zevin played hookie from his last day of fourth-grade so we could make it to our flight to Israel on Wednesday, kicking off a three-and-a-half week trip that will include some time on the canals of Brittany and a...