Vacation possibilities
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magidNot packaged tours, nor just any place with a kosher restaurant. Rather, Jewish events that look interesting.
The kosher chili cookoff, sponsored by the Nusach Hari B'nai Zion shul in St. Louis.
Limmud's annual week of learning the last week of the (secular) year, in Nottingham, England.
JOFA's biannual conference at Columbia University, February 10-11, 2007. The theme this time is "V'chai bahem/ Passion and Possibility" (No, not at all a translation. Strange, that. I suppose they want something evocative in both languages.)
For 2008, the Arava Jerusalem-Eilat ride.
Plus one 'easy*,' yet off the beaten track, destination: Gibraltar, which has a noticeable Jewish community.
* Which means, not halfway across the globe, kosher food is easily available (no traveling with tuna), and synagogues if I want to stay over Shabbat (cool Sefardi ones, too). Plus they speak a language I know.
A week of kosher Italian or French cooking classes in Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, or Provence. (Pricey, but ooh! Someday...)
There's also more adventurous travel (far off places without easy food options, like India or Malawi), or things that would involve much more preparation on my part (multi-day hiking trips, Pennsic, Burning Man, etc.). That's a huge list in and of itself.
So many places to go, so many things to do. Far too little time (and more money would of course be welcome :-).
The kosher chili cookoff, sponsored by the Nusach Hari B'nai Zion shul in St. Louis.
Limmud's annual week of learning the last week of the (secular) year, in Nottingham, England.
JOFA's biannual conference at Columbia University, February 10-11, 2007. The theme this time is "V'chai bahem/ Passion and Possibility" (No, not at all a translation. Strange, that. I suppose they want something evocative in both languages.)
For 2008, the Arava Jerusalem-Eilat ride.
Plus one 'easy*,' yet off the beaten track, destination: Gibraltar, which has a noticeable Jewish community.
* Which means, not halfway across the globe, kosher food is easily available (no traveling with tuna), and synagogues if I want to stay over Shabbat (cool Sefardi ones, too). Plus they speak a language I know.
A week of kosher Italian or French cooking classes in Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, or Provence. (Pricey, but ooh! Someday...)
There's also more adventurous travel (far off places without easy food options, like India or Malawi), or things that would involve much more preparation on my part (multi-day hiking trips, Pennsic, Burning Man, etc.). That's a huge list in and of itself.
So many places to go, so many things to do. Far too little time (and more money would of course be welcome :-).
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Date: 2006-10-26 05:25 pm (UTC)Then again, I can't ignore the UK choice. The synagogues I've seen here are beautiful. Unfortunately, here in the Scotland direction they are a bit short of rabbis. The Aberdeen synagogue gets a visit from the rabbi only once a month.
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Date: 2006-10-26 05:31 pm (UTC)Limmud happens every year, so if not now, another year. I've spent time in London (a month or so), but not outside the city much at all, so Nottingham would be great. (Plus all the obligatory advance rereadings of Robin Hood :-) And I assume for the conference they'd be full up on rabbis and such. I hadn't realized the situation was so dire for rabbis in Scotland; I'd think it would be a great area to live in. OTOH, a lot of things can be done without a rabbi, at least.