Happy Birthday! As you celebrate another voyage around the sun, we hope today is as wonderful and extraordinary as you are. Wishing you a memorable day and that your life is filled with love, harmony and good health during the coming year. Enjoy the adventure and stay amazing!
Thank you for your birthday wishes and for your ongoing and amazing support for my writing and videos! PLEASE comment, like and subscribe to my YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@lisaniver I hope to get to 2M views by Dec 31st! Thanks for helping make my birthday wish come true!!
This summer I had great adventures in Toronto and Calgary!
Sometimes the journey is very challenging. I am lucky to have a very supportive team of family and friends. Do you need some encouragement? I love these cartoons from Liz & Mollie–and this Ahavnu prayer about recognizing our accomplishments from Stephen Wise Temple High Holy Day Worship.
Thank you to Princess Cruises for including me in the premier party for the REAL LOVE BOATreality TV show on the Discovery Princess. I loved living onboard and traveling around the globe with you!
Thank you to Rabbi Yoshi and Stephen Wise Temple for the honor of lighting the Shabbat Candles for my birthday!
WHERE CAN YOU FIND MY TRAVEL VIDEOS?
Here is the link to my video channel on YouTube where I have over 1.6 million views on YouTube! (Exact count: 1,685,000 views)
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For the director/artist, creating images inspired by Torah is a way of engaging with the stories, ideas and interpretations that have shaped Jewish life for thousands of years.
A classic Australian dessert chocolate coconut slice features a rich, dense, fudgy chocolate base packed with dried coconut, finished with a thick cocoa frosting and generously dusted with even more coconut.
This Tisha b’Av, as we mourn over the Temple once more, it is an occasion to consider what resonance the remnants of the Temple structure hold for us today.
Coalition supporters want to define Eisenkot as a leftist because leftist is a title most Israelis do not want their Prime Minister to hold. But this definition has inherent limitations.
Last week, I moderated a panel of interfaith leaders fighting antisemtism and supporting Israel as part of the American Muslim and Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council’s conference.
As if life needed one more complication, my anniversary with life, my birthday, usually falls somewhere inside the Three Weeks, that narrow corridor of Jewish time when celebration starts to feel suspicious.
Anti-Israelism has become a kind of cultural and political loyalty test that has almost nothing to do with the actual policy questions at stake. If the postwar liberal order is fragmenting, the story of Israel is a symptom of that fragmentation, not its cause.
The film reminded me that an ancient poet could write about massacres but also about moral courage, while terrorists who dream of killing Jews can only think of going right to the massacre.
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Happy Birthday: Niver’s News: Oct 2022
Lisa Ellen Niver
Oct News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel:
This is 55.
Happy Birthday! As you celebrate another voyage around the sun, we hope today is as wonderful and extraordinary as you are. Wishing you a memorable day and that your life is filled with love, harmony and good health during the coming year. Enjoy the adventure and stay amazing!
Thank you for your birthday wishes and for your ongoing and amazing support for my writing and videos! PLEASE comment, like and subscribe to my YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@lisaniver I hope to get to 2M views by Dec 31st! Thanks for helping make my birthday wish come true!!
This summer I had great adventures in Toronto and Calgary!
Read or watch what we did in my article: “Explore Toronto with CityPASS and me!” Click here for all of the videos. Would you walk around the OUTSIDE of the CN TOWER in the RAIN? I DID!
Looking for a LUXURY STAY in Toronto? Read my article:
Luxury Toronto: Fairmont Royal York, Shangri-La Toronto and Four Seasons Toronto
I will be speaking on a Penn Travel panel Nov 7, 2022. Click here for details!
Thank you to the Jewish Journal for having me in PRINT 24 times in 5782 (Sept 2021-Sept 2022! See the latest ones: Click here
Thank you to Princess Cruises for including me in the premier party for the REAL LOVE BOAT reality TV show on the Discovery Princess. I loved living onboard and traveling around the globe with you!
Thank you to Rabbi Yoshi and Stephen Wise Temple for the honor of lighting the Shabbat Candles for my birthday!
WHERE CAN YOU FIND MY TRAVEL VIDEOS?
Here is the link to my video channel on YouTube where I have over 1.6 million views on YouTube! (Exact count: 1,685,000 views)
Thank you for your support! Are you one of my 3,690 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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