Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Israel, of course. I think this is pretty much a North American holiday? I only know people in the US and Canada who celebrate (and even that’s not on the same dates, I believe).
All that said, we have this family thing with coming up with new family traditions. Obviously, an [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Holidays’
Thanksgiving Thoughts in Israel
Visiting Acre (Akko) - More Pictures
This is going to be a bit of a funny post and I don’t mean haha funny. It’s about family, holidays, and traveling. But it’s also about politics. If you don’t feel like doing a lot of reading, just scroll down for the pictures…
Acre has been on our list of places to visit with the [...]
Autumn Winds
We went to the first of the two weddings last night and it was absolutely magnificent. It’s been a while since we’ve been emotionally moved by a wedding ceremony like we were last night. It was a very unusual wedding, in that the young couple chose a totally secular service, without a Rabbi. This service [...]
The Wandering Israelis
It’s August, extremely hot, and yet we keep getting phone calls from people who want to vacation in Eilat. You see, our phone number is very similar to that of a popular youth hostel in Eilat, and we keep getting callers who making the same dialing mistake. It gives me a great indication of how [...]
Action Loaded Weekend
We’ve had the big Lag Ba’Omer bonfire night on Friday, which was a huge success. About 50 people all in all (well, half of them were kids), lots of food and conversation. My feet were killing me by the end of the evening though - I don’t think I had a minute rest through out. [...]
Preparing for Lag Ba’Omer
We barely had a full normal week and wham, the next holiday is upon us! At least this one is a fun one, and celebrating it has turned into a small tradition in our family. Lag Ba’Omer is about some ancient revolt of the Jews against the Occupying forces (the Romans in that case). Their [...]
Israel’s 60th Independence Day - Some Pictures
It’s been almost two weeks by now, but better late than never! It’s not a whole lot of pictures anyway, but it does give me a chance to try out the new gallery plugin I installed
I am still going to post more about the Nakba seminar I attended on the very days these [...]
