Daily Dispatch 7: Saying Goodbye to the Holy Land
March 26, 2014
JERUSALEM — Before we arrived in the Holy Land, Professor Goldman encouraged us to travel in three capacities: As tourists, as pilgrims, and most importantly, as journalists. The eighth and ...
Daily Dispatch 6: Exploring Jerusalem on Foot
March 22, 2014
JERUSALEM — Since Jerusalem’s traffic was temporarily snarled by the city’s fourth annual marathon this morning, our professors opted against touring as a group–and the troops of The Land went ...
Daily Dispatch 5: Journey through Jerusalem
March 21, 2014
JERUSALEM — After five months of reading and talking about Jerusalem in class, the day had come when we could finally journey through it. After landing in the secular city ...
Daily Dispatch 4: A Day of Reflection
March 20, 2014
BETHLEHEM — Today began with a visit to the one of the most revered mountaintops in the Holy Land and ended with dinner at a Palestinian home. It was a ...
Daily Dispatch 3: The Voices of a Silent Religion
March 19, 2014
TIBERIAS — Our third day traveling in Israel in search of religious diversity began and ended with the Druze. We went to the tomb of the Druze prophet Jethro early ...
Daily Dispatch 2: “Morning Comes, it’s Time to Work”
March 17, 2014
TEL AVIV — It’s 8 in the morning, and we’re all on the bus outside our hotel in Tel Aviv. In an attempt to teach us some basic Hebrew and ...
Daily Dispatch 1: A Back Door into Religion in Israel
March 17, 2014
TEL AVIV — For most people, Israel is the story of Muslim and Jew, and — to a lesser extent — Christian, Baha’i and Druze. Our first stop upon our ...