A cultural center, hotel and museum all rolled into one,the House of Dona Gracia, complete with renaissance-style decor and elaborately dressed actors, transports visitors back to the sixteenth… Read more

Overlooking the terraces at Sataf Photos: www.sassontiram.com Growing up in New York in the 1950s, my connection with the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael) was a little blueand- white tin… Read more

Herod, an architectural genius, built the Herodium, a luxurious and magnificent fortress in the Judean Hills. Nowadays, many Jews flock to Herodium on Tisha B’Av eve for the reading of Eichah.… Read more

As our Jeep bounces violently through a valley somewhere in the Jordan Valley, we spot a group of about fifteen khaki-clad soldiers on a nearby hill. The soldiers have been stationed on the hill Read more

I grew up in New England. Seasons in New England are the stuff of legend: Raging thunderstorms and scorching heat in summer, bursts of color in fall, snow measured by yardsticks in winter and a… Read more

In Be’er Sheva, one can walk in the footsteps of our forefather Avraham.  Photos: www.sassontiram.com Although the Bible can be studied anywhere, only in Israel can we walk in the footsteps of the… Read more

At 100, A City of Vision and Fulfillment On April 11, 1909, sixty families held a historic lottery on the sand dunes along the Mediterranean Sea, just a few hundred yards north of the walls that… Read more