Category: Social Justice, Tikkun Olam, BLM

A road trip from Marrakesh to the Sahara: Camels, COVID, new friends—and History

America is going off the rails: We knew this, but now we know what it feels like. So what can we do?

On my first visit to and first stop in Morocco: Marrakesh, the bustling, dusty, overwhelming tourist center—and home to Jewish sights and sites in a Muslim Land ?

I lived in Europe in Summer 2017, a whirlwind of experiences and attempted-expat life (not meant-to-be at the time) that often seems like a three-month, 10-country dream. It was that summer I first visited Berlin, some 25 years after first trip to Europe. That summer, 1997, I landed in Frankfurt and stayed with a family...