Temple Sinai Travels to Israel
A Trip for Families and First-Timers
Led by Rabbi Marc Disick & Melissa Cohavi, RJE
February 11-22, 2009
www.arzaworld.com

There is nothing quite like standing on Masada, or swimming in the Dead Sea or walking through the archeological tunnels under the Western Wall. There is nothing quite like seeing the stones of Jerusalem turn to gold as the sun goes down, or sensing the world from atop Golan Heights or from underneath the waterfalls of Ein Gedi where King David himself once bathed.

To begin to know Israel one must go to Israel. To make Israel a fundamental element of one’s spiritual life and identity one must remember Woody Allen’s ancient command that “80% of life is just showing up.”

We’ve assembled a trip for families and first-timers with the travel company we worked with for our first Temple Sinai trip to Israel three years ago, a company with a great reputation that does most of its work with Reform Synagogues, ARZA Travel. They know us and we know them. Here are some of our trip’s highlights.

• Visit the Old City of Jaffa and stroll through the renovated artists’ colony and the ancient port
• Experience a Jeep tour climbing to the Golan Heights in the footsteps of IDF soldiers and their battles
• Visit the award winning Golan Winery, located in the Golan Heights, which is known as Israel’s first world class winery
• Explore Safed, a center of Jewish mysticism for hundreds of years, and a contemporary artists’ colony
• Plant a tree at the JNF Forest near the Golani Junction
• Go to Beit Shean National Park, one of the largest archaeological sites in Israel

Those who have been to Israel will undoubtedly join with me in telling you the same thing: you gotta go! For openers please take a look at the itinerary at arzaworld.com.