Thursday, October 18, 2018 (continued): Israel Ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov (Master of the…
Thursday, October 18, 2018 (continued): One of our goals in Mielec (Me-ell-its) is to visit its…
Thursday, October 18, 2018 (continued): In the early 1980s, I worked near a bookshop in…
Thursday, October 18, 2018 (continued): We leave Tarnów. Our destination is the Jewish cemetery in…
Thursday, October 18, 2018: Today Beth and I, armed with a map and notes from…
We decided not to bring the camera. We had carried it with us to every…
In the morning, when I take the dog for a walk, I wear slip-on shoes.…
It’s October 16, 2018. I am walking behind Beth on a path covered with fallen…
For many travelers, enjoying local food in the places they visit is one of the…
Writing is remembering. In the 1920s, ten percent of Poland’s population was Jewish; thirty percent of Warsaw’s residents were Jewish. Compare this with the United States today, where Jews make up between one and a half to two percent of the general population and approximately thirteen percent of the population of New York City. For … Continue reading Kraków: Food and Prayer