Mizpe Yam Hotel Netanya

... as she walked to the door of the broken one, I "sang" that she should not go in there. After scolding me for not addressing her in the correct manner, she peeked inside and witnessed the vile sight someone had left in there. Her face was priceless. The rest of us collapsed from laughter.<br><br><br><br>Later, within our tents of around twenty boys, we had to give a brief "hakshev" salute to the commander to whom the Shabbat was dedicated. Inside our tent, ours centered around an ...

... every single show that we have in America, Israel must copy, it's hilarious). My uncle FINALLY showed up at around 10:30ish and at around 11:30ish he took my grandmother and myself home. Just some awesome news to make you all jealous- Depeche Mode is playing in Israel this Sunday, and there's actually a chance I might go!!!! Pray for me!!!!!!!!! Love you all, hope all is going well in the States and that you don't all have swine flu.~Neili

... 2 hours. The bus ride to Tiberias was mercifully uneventful, although since it was already 9:30 PM local time when we left, there was not much to see. We rolled in at 11:30 PM for dinner. I chose sleep instead and managed to calculate our door to door travel time of 27.5 hours. A new record, but I had survived at least. My thoughts of our travel marathon were put in a little perspective when I thought about the journeys many other ...

... following every action the Rebbe did like a mass game of Simon Says<br><br>* There was one moment when the Rebbe was about to bless bread and give pieces to his followers. Brendan goes: "I dare you"! So I went down the grandstand and joined the charedim as they swarmed to grab a piece of this "holy bread". I managed to get a piece and noticed, with my smug satisfaction, the poor followers who desperately wanted to touch the holiness that I held in my hands as I ...

... of the Cosmos by David Greene. Some of the stuff in here was pretty fascinating to think about. Anyway, there weren't any tables available at the bar so the hostess sent us downstairs to the empty waiting room. No one else was there, but we could hear the music playing from above. It was basically an empty room with only a foosball table in the middle, nothing on the plain white walls. We called it the VIP room but there was nothing VIP about it. As ...

... love." But, I mainly thought about serious and unforgiving men in suits and beards, about stressed-out guys in kippa hats counting their fortunes all day long, about girls who'll analyze a guy's mating potential but probably not befriend him. And I recalled Fyodor Dostoyevsky's words, in "The Brothers Karamazov", a novel about religion: "Oh hell, what would I do to that man who first thought up God! To hang him from the bitter aspen tree wouldn't be enough ...

... dark which was only a few hours away because they are not allowed to even drive in night. Interesting. My flight was uneventful except that i almost missed the plane to England in San Francisco because my plane was late leaving LAX. I had only 20 minutes to literally run through the airport to the international terminal. I could hear them announcing my name over the loud speaker saying that the doors were closing but I made it, drenched in sweat. They shut ...

... in nearly every way. Walking around the city, it was all bars and cafes and young people, everywhere. Tel Aviv is the happening city of Israel, and apparently is known throughout the Middle East as the party city of the region. I believe it. I was fortunate in that a good buddy had organized me to meet up with some of his Israeli friends in Tel Aviv. Day 1 I actually just hit the beach and enjoyed soaking up some rays on ...

After three months in Israel, I am packing my bags for Europe. 1st stop, Turkey! I have no concrete plans, but I hope to travel from Turkey, through Greece, Croatia, Slovania, and finally Italy. Any suggestions on places to visit, stay, eat etc. would be greatly appreciated!

... There was no pushing and no argument, not even a raised eyebrow, but if you looked carefully into the eyes of everyone queing it became apparent. Every man was there for himself. People were finding ingenious routes to subtely shuffle in front of the next man in the blink of an eyelid. In England this kind iof behaviour would have caused a supressed murmur, or perhaps even an 'excuse me!' There was ...