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Happy Birthday, Jeff.

The (com)Promised Land Dispatch 5: Kingdoms of Sand and Stone

I'll tell you what I love. I love standing in the dusty no-man's-land between two borders, feelin...

Jordan / Israel Jeff Greenwald

Armed soldier on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem

I Never Got Used To The Guns

It seems that every time you turn around in Israel you seem someone with a gun. In a crowded rest...

Israel MaryLou Driedger

Prayer beads in the Jerusalem bazaar.

The(com)Promised Land

Join travel writer Jeff Greenwald, the author of Shopping for Buddhas , The Size of the World , a...

Israel Jeff Greenwald

Among naga figures at the Shwekyimyint Paya, Mandalay.

The (com)Promised Land: Dispatches from Israel & Beyond

Join travel writer Jeff Greenwald, the author of Shopping for Buddhas , The Size of the World , a...

Israel Jeff Greenwald and Ethical Traveler

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The(com)Promised Land Dispatch 3: Shabbat in Jerusalem - Of Wine and Walls

I found the 8.5 x 11" poster on a stack inside the Jewish Student Information Center. A crude pho...

Israel Jeff Greenwald

The(com)Promised Land Dispatch 4: Wall-Eyed

Damascus Gate was nearly empty at 9 a.m., the sun leaning lightly on the flagstones of East Jerus...

Israel Jeff Greenwald

Breakfast in Israel.

Destination: Israel

Dear Cyberpals, In 1994, to celebrate my 40th birthday, I circumambulated the globe without the b...

Israel Jeff Greenwald

View of Tel Aviv from Jaffa.

The(com)Promised Land Dispatch 1: Tel Aviv

23 February 2004 / Heathrow To A Scary Place A deep and scary place, Israel. It seems almost unsu...

Israel Jeff Greenwald

View of the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock.

The(com)Promised Land Dispatch 2: City of Gold and Tears

People streaming in both directions, as the sun falls behind the King David and my beer catches t...

Israel Jeff Greenwald

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WoW - Women at the Wall

Jewish women risk arrest, insults to pray at the Western Wall, the holiest place in Judaism...

Israel AFP/Patrick Moser

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Israel on the Web

CIA World Factbook . On 24 June 2002, President Bush laid out a "road map" for resolving the Isra...

Israel ThingsAsian

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