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The Jew who saved the Green Bay Packers

16 Feb, 2017

With all of the media-hype about the Super Bowl earlier this month I cannot help

Travels with Harley

29 Feb, 2016

Our canine companion, Harley, travels with us everywhere we go in North America.

"Old Country" interior of the Philly Shul

Cream Cheese and a Big Cracked Bell

28 Apr, 2015

There’s more to Philadelphia than cream cheese and a big cracked bell. There are wonderful synagogues and fabulous shoestring potatoes too.

Pavée and the Power of Tefillin

20 Feb, 2015

Art Nouveau is a grand and romantic design style found in art, architecture and the decorative arts.

Perhaps the most magnificent example of Baroque synagogue architecture in existence.

The Museum of Lights

8 Oct, 2014

When you hear the word Hanukkah, what’s the first place that comes to mind, the Second Temple in Jerusalem?

From Auto-da-Fé to Art Deco

29 Jun, 2014

After a delightful lunch in one of the many sidewalk cafés surrounding Lisbon’s Rossio Square,

Cuba Revisited

13 Apr, 2014

Dusk was falling as our ship glided into Havana’s harbor. From the deck I could see the twinkling lights of nightclubs

One of Malta's many waterfront playgrounds for the jet set.

Who was Joseph Cohen?

20 Jan, 2014

The Jews of Malta figured importantly in the most important battle that you never heard of.

Shirtless in Toronto

20 Nov, 2013

Toronto was the northernmost destination on our synagogue photo safari last summer. Well known as the home of the Maple Leafs hockey team

Munich, Madame X and the Black Synagogue

27 Oct, 2013

To get to the Besançon, France synagogue we walked a half-mile in a light drizzle carrying our photo gear. It had been raining for two days. Since our next synagogue photo-shoot was in Luxembourg five days later

Walnut Street Shul - Chelsea, Massachusetts

Synagogue Safari, Summer 2013 and The Butcher of Boston

19 Aug, 2013

When we arrived back in Los Angeles our car’s speedometer read almost 10,000 miles more than when we had departed on our trans-continental safari five weeks before.

The Painted Synagogues of Moravia

1 Jul, 2013

At a sidewalk café in Vienna my wife, Ronnie, and I gorged on obscenely delicious pastries. Embarrassingly, unable to make a choice from the broad selection, we had ordered one of each.

The Last Jew and the Rope Walker

8 Jun, 2013

Visiting synagogues and sites of Jewish interest in exotic locations is a great vacation focus for the Jewish traveler. Yet, you don’t have to travel long distances to find fascinating examples of Jewish history and culture.

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