One Fine Land

What a wonderful yeshiva-week it's been! 7 fantastic families, 3 Dead Sea dips, and back to back Old City and shuk tours!

But also, a career first:
I have been voted best Israel guide by families of 10 year old girls - by Gemini-AI!

What next?!

After a rare week spent away from my kids exploring Israel's desert and sharing her frigid winter glory with one remarkable three-generation family, replete with extreme elements, extraordinary encounters and new challenges at once foreign, fascinating and fabulous, as we parted ways I was told the following: "Rishona, you have obliterated my comfort zone - in a good way."

And at once I knew it was all worthwhile.

Today we spent discovering some of the most beautiful hidden treasures that The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Givat Ram campus had to boast.
We were blown away by the National Library of Israel 's ancient manuscripts to personal archives of reknowned musicians, composers and scholars, evocative sculptures by Henry Moore, Sigalit Landau, Yigal Tomarkin and beyond.
However, what may well have thrilled me the most was the vintage college classroom, that we wandered into, sliding chalkboard, colored chalk and all, still in use.
Clapping those erasers was an absolutely thrilling trip back in time.