Category Archives: The Israeli Outdoors
Success is Brewing
The Lone Tree microbrewery in Gush Etzion is trying to raise the bar for the country’s beer industry. for original article click here. Otherwise read below… By Amihai Zippor 10/01/2010 Giving tours at the Lone Tree microbrewery in Gush Etzion, Susan Levine is often asked a very basic question: “Who does the brewing?” When a [...]
Stealing my bike
Sitting in the OU Israel Center’s conference room doing an interview for my Torah Tidbits article I realized clumsily I locked my bicycle around a parking meter in front of the building and didn’t even put the lock through the front tire. Hence, anyone walking by could simply raise the bike over the meter and ride [...]
Bike Riding towards Beit Jala
CB and I recently went out for a bike ride to the south. Heading towards Ramat Rachel riding down dirt paths behind the kibbutz that partly follows Derech Hebron and partly turns towards Har Homa we rode up past the monastery near the turn to Bethlehem. At one point a group of Arab girls sitting [...]