by JJ Travel in Israel | Apr 27, 2020 | Israel
From the Partitioning of Poland in 1772 to the Pogroms of 1881 Central Europe became a precarious location for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth beginning in the middle of the 17th century. Conflicts with Sweden, Russia and the Ottoman Empire in addition to internal...
by JJ Travel in Israel | Apr 6, 2020 | Israel
As the Jews began moving out of Spain to many countries in western Europe, the more fortunate ones discovered Poland and Lithuania and enjoyed a tolerance unknown by the Jews in other parts of medieval Europe. In 1264, Boleslaw the Pious (the Duke of Greater Poland)...
by JJ Travel in Israel | Mar 30, 2020 | Israel
The year 410 began a series of events which would bring forth the Golden Age of the Jews in Spain. It was during this year that Germanic tribes, called the Goths, sacked Rome. Under Gothic rule, Catholics residing on the Iberian peninsula were not well-favored since...
by JJ Travel in Israel | Feb 3, 2020 | Israel
On May 14, 1948 Israel was reborn as a nation after 2,000 years. No one can deny that this was truly a unique event in human history. Never have a people who lost their statehood later become a nation after such a long period of time! Furthermore, this was the...
by JJ Travel in Israel | Feb 3, 2017 | Israel
In September 2016 my wife and I joined a JJ Travel tour of Israel. This was not our first time in Israel, but this time we experienced Israel as never before. We saw new places, revisited places we had seen before and got to meet with local believers. The knowledge...
by JJ Travel in Israel | Mar 8, 2016 | Israel
A short journey east from Jerusalem, in the Jordan Rift Valley, is the Dead Sea. To its west are the Judean mountains and to the east the Moab mountains of Jordan – the Israel-Jordan border runs down its center. The surrounding scenery is rugged and...