Category: Miscellaneous

Day 2: Walking the Old City

We all walked backward into time today by visiting the original “town center” of Tel Aviv.  We learned from our guide Amir how the original Tel Aviv included and focused around a high school.  We also learned that 60 Jewish residents together built a new...

Day 1: Shalom! We have landed!

After waking up before sunrise on Sunday, landed in NYC for a 5 hour wait, then 11 hours in the air for Tel Aviv we finally made it. I know what you are asking yourself, “what do you do with 5 hours in a NYC airport?”Well not much!After finally landing in...

2010 Rubin Israel Experience

Several months ago, well-deserving 10 locals were selected. Each of them possesses many unique talents and qualities that that earned them a place on this exclusive Israel experience: Robin Brody, Keith Cohen, Burt Garland, Jeremy Lieb, Daniel Platschek, Ed Reggi,...

Yemen Pre-wedding Ceremony

Although I don’t have time at this moment to post about our Thursday in Israel and probably won’t be able to before Shabbat, I wanted to share pictures from the day so that families and friends can see them. Know that most of the photographs are from the...

Days Five – Six

We know. No blog update for days. Talk to Margo. She has jam-packed our days such that there has literally been no time to blog. There are going to be a lot of pictures. Look at all of them. We have been to some incredible places the last few days.Day Five —...

Day Four — Monday

Yes, I had a little “link” problem. Please try to view the photographs from Day Three again…the link is fixed and there are more pictures than were originally posted. You can see them HERENow to day four…We started off light. The Beit Canada...

Day Three — Sunday

It started off as a normal Rubin-ite day–breakfast outdoors. We were scheduled to go to the Temple Mount, a site holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians, and then to the Holy Sepulcher with visits to the site of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial.As you may have...

Day Two — Saturday

Israeli breakfast — outdoors — it was the perfect way to start the day. After a leisurely meal of coffee, pastries, olives, cheeses and breads, we went on an informal tour of Jerusalem with Danny, our lone soldier from the other night. He is a...

Shalom!

Shalom from Eretz Yisrael!The first plane ride to Newark was a bumpy one. Many of us became motion-sick. Thanks to Jennifer’s no-side-effect-miracle-cure, we were feeling a bit better for the delayed longer flight into Tel Aviv.We thought arriving in Israel...