When he was a student, Mahler would come here on vacation to visit his friend Emil Freund, and it was in Zeliv that he had his first romantic involvement, with a cousin of Emil's named Marie Freund. ...
I visited the synagogue in Tykocin where one of my great grandfathers might have prayed. And I roamed the overgrown cemeteries of Warsaw and Bialystok, wondering which of my relatives were buried there, marveling at the tangled ...... God was in the real estate business once upon a time and gave all Jews, for all eternity, claim to the land. So it is now the manifest destiny of the Israelis to own all land from the sea to Jordan, and whoa to all those who get in the way. ...
English-speaking travelers should note that the two alternative congregations I attended are English- and Visitor-friendly -- at the Bet Orim reform services, I met a mother and daughter who were on vacation from the U.S. Rabbi Raj (who ...
