The weather was glorious for an October day in Belgium. We wanted to take advantage of the beautiful day and spend it outdoors. De Schorre was ...
Europe
We had a long stopover in Berlin on our way out of Belgium.
Germany is not my first choice of a country in which to spend the day due to its ...
We had a full day stopover in Berlin on our way back from Europe to the U.S. I wanted to visit a Synagogue with historical significance.
The New ...
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century sandstone gate and landmark with 12 Doric columns decorated with intricate designed scenes on the walls ...
After visitng the New Synagogue in Berlin, we continued down the road for about two minutes until we saw the Manbijoupark across the street. We ...
After eating our lunch in the Monbijoupark we decided to walk along the Spree River on the Spreeuferpromenad before heading to the Brandenburg ...
An hour’s drive from Antwerp, Bokrijk is well known for the open air museum where there are historical buildings set up as a town would have ...
The Stadspark, fondly nicknamed by the locals as the Cholent Park (due to the large number of people visiting on Shabbos afternoon after the ...
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe a Field of Stelae designed by Peter Eisenman. There are 2710 concrete rectangular Steles. The Steles ...
We had one day in the Fall to spend in Amsterdam during our trip to Belgium, although we’d been there for and had already visited all its ...
The historic popular shopping district in Antwerp is known as the Meir. Located right within the city, both natives and tourists love to visit. ...
The Umschlagplatz, the area in Warsaw where the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto were gathered in order to be deported to Treblinka Concentration ...
I find The Kazimierz, the Jewish Historical area of Krakow, intriguing. Since Krakow was not destroyed during World War II, there are a few ...
On the way from Warsaw to Lublin, we made a stop in the town of Gora Kalwaria, better known in the Chassidic circles as the city of Ger. Even ...
The plaque outside is what distinguishes the nondescript stone building which housed Sara Schenirer Seminary from the rest of them on the ...
On a regular looking sidewalk between buildings on Lwowska in Krakow stands the 12 meter remnant of the original Krakow Ghetto Wall. In 1983 a ...
About an hour’s drive from Krakow in the Zbylitowska Góra neighborhood just outside the Tarnow is one of the saddest monuments of the Holocaust, ...
It is jarring to see how Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration and death camps have become museums for people to visit. Since there are crowds of ...
We had a very limited amount of time during our visit to Krakow, but we did not want to leave without seeing the building of the legendary Oskar ...
It was nighttime when we went to the site of the Plaszow Concentration Camp, but we didn’t miss out on much since the German’s destroyed the ...
There is something uplifting and almost magical at the grave of Reb Elimelech of Lizensk. The electrifying feeling of positivity and ...
Krakow for You Boat Tours offer a variety of tours on the Vestula River, from half hour loop tours to 3.5 hour tours. The prices are not very ...
It is hard to miss the Wawel Royal Castle located on a hill in the center of Krakow. It rises majestically above the city. The Wawel is divided ...
When travelling in Europe or to Israel I like to sneak in a long stopover in another country in order to get to see new places. Last time, we ...
Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin is the original Yeshiva Building built in 1930 used for Rav Meir Shapiro’s Yeshiva. Rav Meir Shapiro was most famous as ...
The Majdanek Concentration Camp in the Southeast outskirts of Lublin was our first experience of seeing the grounds of an actual concentration ...
Located on a hill and surrounded by a tall brick wall, the Old Jewish Cemetery in Lublin is the oldest cemetery in Poland still in existence. ...
Krakow is a charming European city, a mix of old and new. The city survived World War II, remaining intact and at the same time there are new ...
Located in the province of Savoie, Aixe Les Bains is a picturesque town in situated between two mountains. We stopped in Aixe Les Bains for a ...
La Plagne, is an area in the French Alps which is divided into small villages, such as Belle Plagne, Plagne Aim 2000, and Plagne Bellecote. ...