Luxury American tourism magazine Jetsetter has named the world’s best designed hotel, and it’s none other than the stunning Brown Beach House in Tel Aviv, Israel. Last week, the magazine announced the winners of its 2016 Best of the Best Hotel Awards in 20 categories ranging from over-the-top luxury and best-looking guests, to all-inclusive and nightlife. […]
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This goes way beyond the ubiquitous poster prints of Matisse or Picasso found in hotels everywhere. Art hotels are all the fashion around the world and Israel has a handful of its own. These hotels go beyond the ubiquitous poster prints and lobby sculptures found in hotels everywhere. In Israel, some hotels host exclusive […]
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Get to know the traditions of old, ancient ghettos and the rarest Jewish monuments in Europe! The Jewish community in the Czech lands was never very numerous, but its cultural influence was enormous. Even today, we can walk through Jewish neighborhoods, bow our heads at Jewish cemeteries or explore one of about two hundred synagogues. […]
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All the Brill family wanted to do was to visit Israel once a year. What they actually did was find way to visit family, buy an apartment, and even make some money on it. Seth Brill will never forget the first time he visited Israel: “As a young student, I spent time at The Hebrew […]
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I often come to Crete, specifically to Chania, where I have friends who treat me like family. On the plane to Chania, I try to sit, if possible, next to the window. I have to change the plane in Athens. From there, I fly another forty-five minutes to Chania. Soon I can see the shape […]
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New York Jewish Travel Guide sat down with Anna Metaxa – singer of the famous KlezBanda group at the Bleibergs Café in Berlin, Germany. NYJTG: When did you form your band? What inspired you to make music together? Anna: We formed our band in 2015. Jossif Gofenberg, the group leader is a specialist in Klezmer music, […]
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Some of the surprising, diverse places where, against the odds, Jewish life is flourishing. “And I will scatter them among the peoples, and they shall remember me in far countries, and they shall live with their children, and they shall return” (Zechariah 10:9). Part of the Jewish people’s unique history is the scattering of Jews […]
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Campo del Ghetto Nuovo is the heart of Venice’s Jewish ghetto, a quiet square just a few minutes’ walk from the train station. It hosts the Jewish Museum, three ancient synagogues and the Jewish community’s nursing home for the elderly. Not far from the square is a kosher hotel and a kosher restaurant. In the […]
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Budapest has long been a magnet for Jewish Tours. American-Jewish tourists staying at Budapest’s Four Seasons Hotel or the renowned landmark Gellert Hotel & Spa make a beeline to see Europe’s largest synagogue, the majestic Dohany Synagogue. Here’s the irony. The Dohany Synagogue wasn’t even built by a Jew – but those two world-class hotels were! […]
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In 1516 a decree ordered that all the Jews in Venice be relocated to geto, an island in the old foundry area – geto from the Italian word to cast or found – giving Venice the dubious distinction of having the world’s first so-called “ghetto”. The Campo Gheto Nuovo was located in the Cannaregio sestiere […]
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