Author: Michael L Weiss Well, you can’t talk about Jericho without singing the song right? Here we are, in the oldest inhabited city in the world and includes what is believed to be the oldest stone guard tower in the world, the oldest protective walls of the city, and if that is enough of all […]

By Susan Hirschbiel & Michael L Weiss To change this up just a little, we are going to try something new, a dual perspective of the sites we visited. This will not be the famous SNL skit featuring Jane Curtain and Chevy Chase as we both see pretty much eye to eye however, now that […]

The Dead Sea has many names in Hebrew it is known as Yam Ha-Melah (The Salt Sea) in Arabic it is called Al-Bahr Al Mayyit (Sea of Death), and at one time it has was called the Sea of Sodom, referring to the destruction found in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. By any name, […]

Hello from 1400 feet below sea level at the Dead Sea. Here in Israel the geography is described as near the Dead/Red or Med   as in Dead Sea/Red Sea or Mediterranean Sea.  This an incredibly quiet, peaceful and noncommercial place, bordered by Jordan.  We took the requisite plunge covered in Mud, hopefully photos will not be viewed by […]

Valley of Elah As a young boy the story of David and Goliath was more like a comic book, or legend of a superhero. Whether Jewish or Gentile every one of my friends could relate to a young boy vanquishing the evil giant and saving his people, after all is it not that unlike Jack […]

Visiting Jaffa, The Valley of Elah-King David and Beersheba Visiting Jaffa, The Valley of Elah-King David, Beersheba, and overnight at the Dead Sea Jaffa Our group departed at 8:40 am this morning and with only a few hours to adjust to the time difference from the states, seven hours ahead for us, getting up at […]

For much of my adult life, I’ve traveled and not just short overnight jaunts. For years I would fly from Atlanta to Brazil, then head to Taiwan, Qatar, or Saudi Arabia, possibly stopping in Singapore or Malaysia, then to New Jersey before returning to Atlanta. I would be home for a week or two and […]