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Big splash at Caesarea Harbor with new Crusader market, upcoming visitor’s center

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New promenade walls and a 700-year-old Crusader market at the Caesarea Harbor were unveiled on June 10 in Caesarea National Park in the presence of Baroness Ariane de Rothschild, and various representatives from funding...
Warner Brothers dominated panels and this section of the exhibit hall at Comic-Con (Photo: Shor M. Masori)

Warner Brothers’ dominates Comic- Con 2018

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SAN DIEGO — Because three of the biggest pop culture staples, Marvel, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones, were absent this year, the recently concluded Comic-Con felt much quieter and much less abuzz with...

Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage

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Nestled at the base of a small hill sloping down from Richmond Road is the Maltz Museum of Jewish History, the single-story structure of glistening glass and golden Jerusalem limestone complementing the graceful domes of Temple-Tifereth Israel rising up from behind. Once...
The ancient synagogue in Baram (Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli attractions: Inside the Baram Synagogue

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Close to the Lebanese border in the upper Galilee is the Baram National Park, located on the Sasa-Bar’am road route 899, which is home to the Baram synagogue. Synagogue remains throughout the Galilee bear witness...
Daniel Gutman, a tour guide who has been leading groups around Israel for the last decade. Credit: Courtesy.

A land where the Bible serves as a tour guide’s GPS

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When you visit Nachal Prat, you can almost feel what it was like to be a seventh-century Israelite leading your donkey, its saddle bags full of water, to Jerusalem. Nachal Prat, often referred to as...

The Good Samaritan Inn

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So many times, on our way back to Jerusalem after spending a few days at the Dead Sea or in Eilat, we passed the sign directing travelers to the Good Samaritan Inn and Mosaic...

Jewish book festival spans mystery to memoir

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Have cooling temperatures left you longing to curl up with a good book? The Northwest Ohio Jewish Book Festival has a few recommendations. Like, say, Beverly Gray’s Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How ‘The Graduate’ Became the Touchstone...