Armchair Travelers

Feeling like your wings have been clipped?  Travel vicariously with me.  No passport or vaccination required. JERUSALEM In Jerusalem's city center, Ben Yehuda, a pedestrian street, and Jaffa, with its…

BETHLEHEM Five miles south, Bethlehem is different from Jerusalem in every aspect.  This is my home for the next two days. In the West Bank, Arab women wear a head…

SEA OF GALILEE At Central Bus Station, the bus to Tiberias was full, but I argued my way into a floor seat at the front, on the steps actually. I…

EIN GEDI The Egged bus from Jerusalem pulled into the rotary on schedule.  It was a warm day and the Dead Sea blended with the blue of the sky,  Jordan…