May News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel:
Thank you to Gizem and her Turkish Coffee Lady Foundation for inviting me to be the keynote speaker at Premier of the “Turkish Coffee Tales of Anatolia” documentary at the Turkish Consul General’s Residence.
Cruise Ship Stories: Mexico on the Majestic Princess and the naming of the Discovery Princess
Lisa Niver C’89 writes, “I loved being back on campus for Homecoming! I spoke at the RealArts@Penn program at Kelly Writers House to students who are aspiring writers; and I went to the football game with Heather Smay Fudala C’91 and Carl Law C’87. I am also happy to report that I won a third-place technology reporting award in the 2021 Southern California Journalism Awards for my piece in Thrive Global, ‘Is Talking Through Technology Making You More Human? with Rana el Kaliouby’ (tinyurl.com/LisaNiverThrive), and I sold my first article to WIRED, ‘8 Useful iPhone Tips for Ex-Android Users’ (tinyurl.com/LisaNiverWired).”
LISA NIVER ’85 writes: “I won a Southern California Journalism Award for technology reporting and was a two-time finalist for the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards. During COVID, I have been working on a memoir and my YouTube channel is now over 1.5 million views. I hope my next update is that I have a book contract! Read my article about My Octopus Teacher in HuffPost Personal.“
Here is the link to my video channel on YouTube where I have over 1.58 million views on YouTube! (Exact count: 1,588,000 views)
Thank you for your support! Are you one of my 3,530 subscribers? I hope you will join me and subscribe! For more We Said Go Travel articles, TV segments, videos and social media: CLICK HERE
Success in the war against Iran – which every American and Israeli should hope for – will only strengthen the tendency of both leaders to highlight their dominant personalities as the state axis, at the expense of the boring institutions that serve them.
Tangy, bright and filled with irresistible umami flavor, turshi is the perfect complement to burgers, kebabs and chicken, as well as the perfect foil for eggs and salads.
On Purim, re-reading Persia, we stand at the intersection of the past and this very moment. May we merit not merely a temporary cessation of war, but true peace — the ultimate end of all conflict.
When future generations tell your story and mine, which parts will look obvious in hindsight? What opportunities will we have leveraged — and decisions made — that define our legacy?
For over half a decade, I had seen how the slow drip of antisemitism, carefully enveloped in the language of social justice and human rights, had steadily poisoned people whom I had previously considered perfectly reasonable.
Today, amid rising global antisemitism and uncertainty in the Diaspora, many Anglos considering aliyah are searching not only for housing but for belonging.
Their assumptions about the attack on Iran are based on a belief in the resilience of an evil terrorist regime, coupled with a conviction that Trump’s belief in the importance of the U.S.-Israel alliance is inherently wrong.
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Speaker at Turkish Consulate: Niver’s News: May 2022
Lisa Ellen Niver
May News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel:
Thank you to Gizem and her Turkish Coffee Lady Foundation for inviting me to be the keynote speaker at Premier of the “Turkish Coffee Tales of Anatolia” documentary at the Turkish Consul General’s Residence.
Cruise Ship Stories: Mexico on the Majestic Princess and the naming of the Discovery Princess
New articles:
Thanks PENN GAZETTE for sharing my alumni news!
Lisa Niver C’89 writes, “I loved being back on campus for Homecoming! I spoke at the RealArts@Penn program at Kelly Writers House to students who are aspiring writers; and I went to the football game with Heather Smay Fudala C’91 and Carl Law C’87. I am also happy to report that I won a third-place technology reporting award in the 2021 Southern California Journalism Awards for my piece in Thrive Global, ‘Is Talking Through Technology Making You More Human? with Rana el Kaliouby’ (tinyurl.com/LisaNiverThrive), and I sold my first article to WIRED, ‘8 Useful iPhone Tips for Ex-Android Users’ (tinyurl.com/LisaNiverWired).”
Thanks Harvard Westlake for sharing my alumni news:
LISA NIVER ’85 writes: “I won a Southern California Journalism Award for technology reporting and was a two-time finalist for the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards. During COVID, I have been working on a memoir and my YouTube channel is now over 1.5 million views. I hope my next update is that I have a book contract! Read my article about My Octopus Teacher in HuffPost Personal.“
Since the Jewish Journal resumed print publication in Fall 2021, I have been in the Blog Bytes section eighteen times! Click here to see me in print in September 2021, October 2021, November 2021, December 2021 , January 2022, Feb 2022 AND April 2022!
I am working on videos from my May adventures in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin:
WHERE CAN YOU FIND MY TRAVEL VIDEOS?
Here is the link to my video channel on YouTube where I have over 1.58 million views on YouTube! (Exact count: 1,588,000 views)
Thank you for your support! Are you one of my 3,530 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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