Dec News 2021 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel:
Happy New Year! I hope in 2022 we can safely celebrate with family and friends. I hope that you are making small steps each day to make your dreams come true!
Thank you to my editor, Alan Henry, and Wired for publishing my article: “Move Over Amazon. Other Retailers Are Catching Up. Not only are orders and returns easier than ever, today’s best retail apps also offer loyalty programs with discounts and rewards.”
I now have more than 200 videos on Tiktok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels and YouTube Short Video! Please comment, like and share on your favorite platform! I appreciate all of your support. From Nov 17, 2021 to Dec 29, 2021 (6 weeks), I had over 245,000 new views! I am going for 1 million.
Learn more about saving our coral reefs from Lionfish on my Tiktok!
In Nov 2021, I went to the DEMA Scuba Diving Conference in Vegas. Read my articles to learn more….
You can also see more in this print edition of the Jewish Journal about our trip:
Read more stories on THEY SAIDon We Said Go Travel
WHERE CAN YOU FIND MY TRAVEL VIDEOS?
Here is the link to my video channel on YouTube where I have over 1.45 million views on YouTube! (Exact count: 1,450,893 views)
Thank you for your support! Are you one of my 3,318 subscribers? I hope you will join me and subscribe! For more We Said Go Travel articles, TV segments, videos and social media: CLICK HERE
When many of America’s leading celebrities called for a “Free Palestine” eighty years ago this week, they were talking about freeing Palestine from British occupation, in order to establish a Jewish state.
There is a struggle within us between constriction and expansion, between despair and vitality. Good humor can be a powerful ally against the constriction that suffering creates.
The 402-page book is organized around 36 life lessons related to the Book of Genesis, with thoughtful study questions and dozens of responses from respected sources in Jewish thought.
Making Israeli films is not easy. Budgets are generally small by American standards, and international financing has become increasingly difficult to secure amid the cultural boycott of Israeli cinema.
For Judith, her family’s experience as refugees from Iran is part of what drives her commitment to speaking out against antisemitism and never staying silent.
Mickey Katzburg, founder of the World Center for Jewish Education, is trying to give Los Angeles Jews another option: an etrog grown in Israel, while at the same time helping support farmers in the country’s Gaza border region.
The report, which can be found on CampusFairness.org, took into consideration five criteria: incident record, institutional response, anti-Israel organizing, Jewish life on campus, and the legal and structural environment.
Among the most high-profile artists to criticize Macklemore’s MetLife Stadium rant was P!NK. Born Alecia Moore, P!NK is a Jewish Grammy-winning pop star who has been increasingly public about her Judaism and antisemitism since Oct. 7.
Grateful for Your Support: Niver’s News: Dec 2021
Lisa Ellen Niver
Dec News 2021 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel:
Happy New Year! I hope in 2022 we can safely celebrate with family and friends. I hope that you are making small steps each day to make your dreams come true!
Thank you to my editor, Alan Henry, and Wired for publishing my article: “Move Over Amazon. Other Retailers Are Catching Up. Not only are orders and returns easier than ever, today’s best retail apps also offer loyalty programs with discounts and rewards.”
Want to read more of my writing? Click here for all of my stories in 2021.
I now have more than 200 videos on Tiktok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels and YouTube Short Video! Please comment, like and share on your favorite platform! I appreciate all of your support. From Nov 17, 2021 to Dec 29, 2021 (6 weeks), I had over 245,000 new views! I am going for 1 million.
In Nov 2021, I went to the DEMA Scuba Diving Conference in Vegas. Read my articles to learn more….
DEMA Show 2021: In Vegas, I learned to TikTok!
Vegas, Baby, Vegas at Resorts World Las Vegas
Thank you to Zelle and Mindy Kaling for the lovely holiday gathering! Thank you to the Jewish Journal for putting part of my article in PRINT
Thank you to Kelly Writers House for inviting me to speak to the students writers at RealArts@Penn! We loved our stay at AKA Rittenhouse for Homecoming! AND!! read about me at the Penn Women’s Studies Website!
Thank you to Undomesticated Magazine for including me in their Readers’ Gift Guide: The Best Books We Read This Year. My pick: The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
I loved my Genesis G80 road trip to Death Valley! Learn more about Genesis and our adventures in my two articles and three videos:
You can also see more in this print edition of the Jewish Journal about our trip:
Read more stories on THEY SAID on We Said Go Travel
WHERE CAN YOU FIND MY TRAVEL VIDEOS?
Here is the link to my video channel on YouTube where I have over 1.45 million views on YouTube! (Exact count: 1,450,893 views)
Thank you for your support! Are you one of my 3,318 subscribers? I hope you will join me and subscribe! For more We Said Go Travel articles, TV segments, videos and social media: CLICK HERE
Find me on social media with over 150,000 followers. Please follow on TikTok: @LisaNiver, Twitter at @LisaNiver, Instagram @LisaNiver and on Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, and at LisaNiver.com.
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“A surprising new offer will soon be presented to you.”
“Do not dwell on what you cannot control.”
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