With just a few more hours remaining in 2017 it is time to reflect on where I’ve been and what I have accomplished for the last 365 days. I am typing this Travel Review from my comfy couch, wrapped up in a blanket with a hot cup of coffee by my side. (OK – I live… Read more
Living in Los Angeles, I am rarely far from a Jewish community. When I moved into my first apartment near Beverly Hills, I quickly found myself to be in the minority. Not because I was a black woman (though that factored in too), but because I was one of probably 2 or 3 non-Jewish families in the… Read more
Arriving in a new country…at night…where you do not speak the language requires a great deal of trust. I arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport around 6:00 PM and by the time I got through customs and got myself situated, I left the airport in complete darkness. Even though there is no immediate threat of danger, I only… Read more
Subtitle: “What I didn’t know could fill a blog post”. Just getting back from 2 and half weeks in Israel, Palestine and Jordan and though I have 1000 different thoughts floating around in my head, its hard to know where to begin writing. The trip was nothing short of amazing. That’s not to say that everything went according… Read more
The night I arrived in Tel Aviv, I struck up a conversation with a local over a glass of wine and ended up asking him “What is your favorite neighborhood in Tel Aviv”. This guy was French by birth, but had spent many years visiting Tel Aviv and now called this city home, so I figured he might… Read more