The price of a standard 10-day Israel trip can be expensive, averaging about $3,000 per person, according to Israel’s Tourism Ministry. But there are a number of programs that can get you to Israel at a reduced price or free, as long as you meet certain criteria.
Pope Benedict XVI vowed to fight anti-Semitism and called for an independent Palestinian state upon his arrival in Israel.\n\nThe pope also invoked the memory of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust and said he would pray for peace during his five-day visit to Israel, which began Monday morning when he landed in a plane belonging to the Jordanian royal family at Ben Gurion International Airport.
ROME (JTA) — The official Israeli government Web site for Pope Benedict XVI\’s upcoming trip to Israel and the West Bank promotes the May 11-15 visit as a \”Bridge for Peace.\”
The Shi Jia school put on events over the last two years to teach the students about Israel, how to say \”Shalom,\” even had its students Skype with a school in Jerusalem. Of course, the school was following the progress of Israeli athletes along with China\’s.
Britains\’ Sky News reports from Tel Aviv on an Israeli advertising campaign to sex up its image.
Calcutta\’s kaleidoscope of teeming streets, sprawling markets and chaotic taxis has always mesmerized me.
At times, it seems as though all 10 million denizens of this eastern Indian metropolis are roaming the city at once, surging in tidal waves, an urban sea of humanity. It was here that Mother Teresa pursued her humanitarian mission for almost 70 years.
My wife, Simone, and I have visited Calcutta (now called Kolkata) often, setting aside time to plod our way through the cacophonous traffic along Chandra Bose Road to the calm oasis of Mother Teresa\’s shelter for children, Shishu Bhavan. We would spend a day or two volunteering, as do so many others from around the world, to care for the youngsters. The volunteers always included Jews, who were welcomed as all others in this basically Catholic institution.
There were important issues on the agenda when Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Israel last week. Still, Russian newspapers seemed most impressed that Putin — the first Russian or Soviet leader to visit the Jewish state — wore a kippah on his head when he visited Yad Vashem.
As the old song goes: "I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall." But for many Jews, Paris, and all of France, is not at the top of their visitor\’s hit parade, because of the anti-Semitic activities that have plagued that country in recent times.
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