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Tag Archives: tel aviv
Rachel Shavit Bentwich at the Hecht Museum in Haifa
I met Rachel Shavit Bentwich in 1954, when she arrived in America with her spouse Nechemia Shavit–my husband Ernest’s classmate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem–and her son. Rachel was to spend a year studying art at the University of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, haifa, hecht museum, israel, rachel shavit bentwich, tel aviv
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A Sentimental Trip to the Holy Land
To celebrate spring and, with some delay, the completion of my Rockefeller opus, husband Ernest and I decided to visit our past: Israel and Paris, both in their various ways engulfed by conflict. It was an emotion-laden trip for my … Continue reading
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Tagged bahai gardens, haifa, hotel cinema, israel, jerusalem, judaism, judeo-christian, kibbutz, mount carmel, near east, sde boker, tel aviv, travel, trips, unesco, vacation, white city, world heritage
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Branching: Thoughts of an Ever-Curious Author 