It can be very hard to have all of your family member’s schedules aligned enough to take a family trip. There is always something going on. But, when there is a holiday, and your family needs to take work off anyway, you have the perfect opportunity to get away together! As long as you understand ...
It is said that during every Jewish Holiday, the same holiness in the air returns each year as it existed during the first. In order to obtain this holiness, you need to understand the true meaning of the holiday! To help everyone reach this, there are steps to follow. Sukkot is an 8-day (7 if ...
To get the most out of any experience and really enjoy your adventure, you need to remember a few rules of traveling. To begin, remember you are a traveler, a tourist. Why is this important to keep in mind? Acknowledge that you are not in your home court. And that’s good! The local culture, the ...
One question many Jews wonder is whether it is permissible to travel during the holiday of Sukkot. According to the OU [link here], the short answer is that Sukkot Travel is permitted on Chol Hamoed even if it is clear that the participants will not be able to eat and sleep in a sukkah. However, ...
After a long flight, you’ve finally arrived in the enchanting city of Prague. Before you left home, you booked a great room, chose some amazing sites to visit and planned out a basic itinerary. But, now that you’re here… how do you get to those sites? How do you get to your room? How do you ...
There is something about autumn that always piques a feeling of wanderlust. The long summer nights are beginning to give way to crisp cool autumn mornings and each gust of wind carries with it the scent of adventure. Sometimes just closing your eyes and letting yourself imagine where that breeze would take you…Somewhere steeped in ...
If you ever visit Prague, you’ll notice that there is a certain mystical aura to the city, an almost palpable sense of Divine protection. Legend has it that in the late 16th Century, Rabbi Loew created a golem out of clay from the Vltava River to protect the Jews of Prague from danger. Is it ...
Hello dear readers, As many of you are well aware, I often travel for work. In fact, I just looked at my calendar for the last year and realized that I had booked at least one flight during each month of the year, which is a personal record! Of course, many of those were work ...
Hello dear readers, Today’s blog forecast will be… about the weather on Sukkot! Sukkot is always on the 15th of Tishrei, but in terms of the secular calendar, it usually falls somewhere between September 15 and October 15 (depending on whether it’s a Jewish leap year, and other factors I suppose). Sukkot is great because ...
Hello dear readers, One of my favorite parts of Sukkot is decorating the sukkah. Every year we dig out all the old sukkah decorations from the giant box where we keep it during the year, and even though the old decorations should be enough to fill the entire sukkah, we always find room for new ...
