Expedition Armageddon
Jessica Siegel
February 15, 2001
Indiana Jones battled snakes, boulders and heathens during his archaeological quests, which sounds like great adventure to me.
Category
Travel
The Melting Wok
Anthea Gerrie
February 15, 2001
It was Friday night in Shanghai, a major linchpin of the Jewish Diaspora, and folks from all over the world were dropping in to wish Rabbi Greenberg "Shabbat shalom."
Jews With Altitude
Chip Kaplan
February 1, 2001
Every December, my wife and I used to pack up our winter gear, load the snow chains into the trunk of our car, bundle up our two young children and brace for a motor expedition through the desolate suburbs that seem to stretch interminably eastward from Los Angeles.
Downhill Doubts
J.D. Smith
February 1, 2001
My father has disowned me. We did not get into a fight about the family business — there is no family business. I did not marry out of the faith, and I have no children about whose upbringing we can disagree. The source of our irreconcilable differences is that we went skiing together last year, and he is convinced that I cannot be his natural child.
Israel All to Yourself
Adam Wills
January 18, 2001
I was more than a little conflicted when Israel\’s Ministry of Tourism invited me to visit the Holy Land for one week in December to judge for myself whether the country was safe enough for tourists. I\’d never traveled to Israel before, and while I knew that life was going on as usual for most Israelis, CNN\’s daily images of conflict and the U.S. State Department\’s warning fed my apprehension.
Downward Trend
Mike Levy
January 18, 2001
Tour operator Tova Gilead returned from a 10-day trip to Israel in early January and brought back wonderful stories of people experiencing the beauty and history of the Holy Land, many for the first time.
Open Season
Jeff Wallach
January 4, 2001
Those who see little distinction between religion and golf might be tempted to daven with their heads pointed northwest, toward Pebble Beach.
Berlin Bound
Tom Tugend
December 14, 2000
More than 300,000 visitors have thronged the Jewish Museum in Berlin since it opened to the public in February 1999, and more are coming at a clip of 20,000 each month.
Beyond Ordinary
George Medovoy
November 30, 2000
Ernie Weir is owner and winemaker of Hagafen Cellars, one of California\’s three kosher wineries that exist in an industry dominated by hundreds of non-kosher wineries.
Roman Holiday
Ivor Davis
November 16, 2000
On Yom Kippur, my wife Sally and I went to shul just around the corner from the Vatican. It was a visit we will not soon forget. The imposing Comunita Ebraica di Roma Synagogue (the Great Synagogue of Rome) sits just off the Piazza del Firori close to the Tiber River and spitting distance from Vatican City across the river in one direction, and Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum in the other.
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