Kedem Towers Jerusalem
4 Vilnai St Jerusalem, Israel
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The Holy City and Pasta
... filo dough cookies with nut stuff in them. We saw pomegranates the size of small kids heads and cabbages the size of basketballs. The fruit and spices and meats and candy and all the other wild life smelled great. We found a little café in the middle of it to have some lunch. It was way good too. Then as we were planning on leaving the rain started hard – and we decided to stay to wait it out.
After another round of tea and wine we ...
Day trip to Bethlehem
... the Israelis. Mmh.
The roads also; this time we definitely travelled on Palestinian soil only but, still, there were quite a few road blocks with big chunky concrete blocks and immensely bored Israeli soldiers to be seen, but the Serweez (minibus) didn't get stopped and probably never does as this route is used by people who don't have a permit and thus can't pass via the checkpoints out of or within Palestine.
There are also some roads, which can only ...
The Living Water and Bread of Life
... every year along with weekly Haftarah readings from the Prophets. These readings are read aloud in synagogues throughout the world in weekly portions on the Sabbath. Simchat Torah is the day when the last chapter is read from the Torah scroll, and they turn and turn and turn the scroll until they get back to the beginning. The Torah scrolls are then paraded seven times around the synagogues followed by the ...
Roaming around Jerusalem
... of the manner in which this was accomplished came to light in 1880 C.E. when an inscription was found carved in the wall of a water tunnel terminating in what is presently known as the Pool of Siloam on the W side of the old “City of David.” The inscription, in early Hebrew script regarded as dating from the eighth century B.C.E., described the excavation of the tunnel through solid rock by the two teams of men working toward each other from opposite ends. When ...
Intern Celebration Meal
Today, the interns cooked and shared one last big meal together. Interns have begun trickling out already as obligations in their home countries await them. The summer internship is a bit different in that sense because many of the interns return to school or work, which begin at different times. Therefore, people ...



