This past week as part of the Great Big Jewish Food Fest taking place online, I was privileged to watch the making of a unique Sephardi...

The Jewish holiday of Shavuot begins tonight. Shavuot is the Festival of Weeks or Festival of Tabernacles or the Pentacost. We count 49...

I'm really excited to see the 2 new documentaries on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where most Christians are marking the story of the...

The best Israeli to ever play in the NBA - Omri Casspi, and the best American to ever play in Israel - NBA All-Star Amare Stoudemire (who...

The Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research released this year's statistical yearbook, just in time fo the Jerusalem Day holiday which...

Tonight in Israel begins Jerusalem Day. For those unaware, Jerusalem Day is the day on the Jewish calendar which marks that day in the...

I'm really excited to see the new movie Abe, which is about a 12-year old boy trying to find a way to bring the warring members of his...

Did you know that the tombs of Mordechai and Esther, the heroes of the Purim story, exist today? Well not for long, if some arsonists...

For the first time since the Crusader Period, Haram al-Sharif, "The Noble Sanctuary," (known to Jews and Christians as The Temple Mount)...

In the past 60 years, we have seen a remarkable shift in the attitudes of the Vatican towards the Jewish people. Jews were absolved of...

At 4PM on Friday May 14, 1948, the shortest but sweetest ceremony in the history of the Jewish people took place. Israel was declared a...

People always ask me: Kobi, as a tour guide of Israel, when is the best time to be in Israel? And I always respond: Israel Independence...

For only the 4th time, a coin from the Bar Kochba Revolt in 132-135CE/AD which states "For the Freedom of Jerusalem" has been found in...

While there have been mistakes and knuckleheads, overall Israeli society has handled it quite well. And some times we were magnificent.

Check out this collection of great ways to see the sites of Israel from your own homes. Whether you want to review sites you saw on tour...

After years of asserting that the Pope, who remained silent during the Holocaust, was actually working behind-the-scenes to help Jews...

Here is a question I sometimes get as a tour guide of Israel and someone with a degree in Middle Eastern history and politics. Is Israel...