Including East Jerusalem, Masada, the Dead Sea.
…standing up on tippy-toes in the women’s balcony with my camera hung over the top of the window’s barrier. Judy thought that guy on the phone might be her brother.
Jonathan’s description of his experience: ‘I had the 7th aliyah to the torah on the first shabbat since 1948. This was the shabbat before my wedding. My aliyah to the torah is called my aufruf.’
Jonathan, Judy, and I met in the plaza of this synagogue for dinner and Something was about to happen. There were about a hundred of these boys.
If you guessed they were sword fighting with those things, which they were, you would be only one-quarter right.
Actually, what they are doing is playing with fire! One hundred young boys with flaming torches. Yup. I didn’t hear any ambulances either.
A Torah, inside that decorated vehicle, was being moved from one place to another and when that happens there is always a big event with music, dancing, singing, and Fire…
We ate dinner at a kosher shawarma place on the plaza so we could keep an eye on the haps.
Judy and Jonathan in front of the plaque I copied with a rendering of the whole synagogue…
…and Jonathan’s legit now too, a dual citizen.
And on that note I bid to Israel, Shalom!
