HAD NES – Nes Gadol Haya Po – Golan Heights
“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.” So says Dr. Seuss. The story of Had Nes is the story of…
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One Fish, Two Fish, Five Loaves, Fat Fish
Fish form a central place in life around the Sea of Galilee. Israel's only large scale source of fresh water has long been a magnet…
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Reading and ‘Riting on the Golan Heights
I grew up with RIF (Reading is FUNdamental) in school and television ads. Literacy is more than just being able to read, though; writing is…
Change is Hard
Historical facts are presented as hard fast numbers. Historical periods start and end on particular dates as marked by large scale changes in sovereignty or…
Discovering Gamla
Archaeology is a young science. Three hundred years ago no one cared about digging up, studying and preserving the past. The material remains of the…
Synagogue on the Heights
In this week's Torah reading, we have one of the examples in the Pentateuch of stories which happen in the land of Israel. Jacob and…
When Water Flows Uphill
I wrote in a previous post about an aqueduct that I came across while hiking in the Golan above Nahal Zevitan. The technology involved in…
Zevitan Hike
This week school will start for Gideon and Hill. We spent last week squeezing the last bits out of summer while trying to prepare for…
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