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Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021

Peaceful Transfer of Power

Today, what's on everyone's mind is the transfer of power. How this has happened in the past is a topic which interests me greatly (see…

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Posted on December 28, 2020

No Pictures – COVID in the Old City

I didn't take a picture. Today the 3rd lockdown in Israel started. Movement is severely restricted; businesses and stores are closed; school attendance is limited…

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Posted on October 29, 2020October 6, 2020

Pioneers in Motza

In the days before Corona, I went on an overcast winter's day on a tour with other guides and the education department of the Tower…

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Posted on October 22, 2020October 6, 2020

Avoiding Debt

What would you do to avoid debt collectors? There are lots of interesting stories of people and populations throughout the ages who changed some part…

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Posted on October 15, 2020October 1, 2020

House of Bones

I went to school to learn philosophy and I work as a tour guide. It may seem as though these two fields are totally unrelated;…

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Posted on August 27, 2020July 9, 2020

Where There is a Church, There is History

About 1500 years before the first archaeologist took up his spade to look for the past in the ground, Byzantines started identifying historic sites. Bibles…

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Posted on July 9, 2020June 16, 2020

The Kitos War

In the history of Jerusalem, the events surrounding the Bar Cochva revolt provide one of the saddest chapters. The grassroots, guerrilla war waged by Jews…

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Posted on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020

Armenian Pottery in Jerusalem

It's a Jerusalem story involving the British, Armenian Christians, and Moslems.  In the 1920's the British facilitate the return to Jerusalem of Armenian Christian ceramic…

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Posted on April 1, 2020March 24, 2020

Pisa in Jerusalem

I work for the Tower of David. I guide there, and translate materials for them, so I am interested in everything surrounding the Citadel and…

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Posted on October 8, 2019October 8, 2019

Like Clay in the Hands of the Potter

One of the most compelling piyyutim poems in the Yom Kippur prayers (piyyut here) compares the relationship between Man and God through metaphors centering around…

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