Peter Abelow

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On & Off the Beaten Track in … Tel Beit Shemesh

Recently, I mentioned to a friend who lives in the growing city of Beit Shemesh that I would be writing about Tel Beit Shemesh in the coming issue of this…

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On and Off the Beaten Track In… Metzudat Koach—the Koach Fortress

Sandwiched between Pesach, the holiday marking our redemption from galut (exile), and Shavuot, the holiday when we celebrate receiving the Torah and our concomitant commitment to building a Torah society,…

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On and Off the Beaten Track: Chanukah—and all year—in Gush Etzion

This past summer, Mandy and Jeremy Broder, a British-Israeli couple who are skilled artists, turned their personal dream into reality. The Workshop joins the ranks of the many great family…

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On and Off the Beaten Track in…the Footsteps of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs Eretz Bereshit—Genesis Land

Traveling on camelback through the hot sandy desert, across a landscape scarcely unchanged in 4,000 years, while listening to Eliezer’s narrative, it is easy to close your eyes and imagine…

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On and Off the Beaten Track in . . . The Maimonides Heritage Center

Though centuries have passed since Rambam served as a guiding light for the Jewish people, he remains one of the most widely studied Torah scholars. Now, thanks to Rabbi Levy,…

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On and Off the Beaten Track in…the Machal Memorial at Sha’ar HaGai

In 1947-8, some 3,500 Machal members from thirty-seven countries rallied to Israel’s defense.

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On and Off the Beaten Track in…Kibbutz Ketura: A Date with Destiny

Mazal Tov! Methuselah is a father. At the age of ten (plus 2,000!), perhaps the oldest tree to be germinated from an ancient seed, Methuselah has been successfully pollinated with…

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On and Off the Beaten Track in…Mitzpor Haelef

The Land of Israel is a “lovely, good and expansive land” (Birkat Hamazon). The new observation deck, Mitzpor HaElef in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion, is one of the places in…