Dallas, a city that thinks big and lives large… Barbara Kingstone January 18, 2011 North America, United States Live Large, Think Big is the slogan for Dallas and finally, it’s a phrase that states truisms. Nothing small or diminutive about Dallas. For...
Touro Synagogue Barbara Kingstone January 18, 2011 North America, United States The Jewish community of Newport was founded by 15 families who arrived in the colonial seaport by ship in 1658. In 1677 the Jewish community...
Jewish walks in Philadelphia Barbara Kingstone January 18, 2011 North America, United States On a warm autumn morning in Philadelphia on a street lined with Federal Revival houses from the early 1700's, is the Society Hill Synagogue...
Cincinnati: Humanistic Synagogue Celebrates 25 Year Anniversary Barbara Kingstone January 18, 2011 North America, United States Congregation Beth Adam is the Tri-State’s only congregation practicing Judaism with a Humanistic Perspective Robert Barr founded...
A Short History of the Jewish Museum in New York Barbara Kingstone January 18, 2011 North America, United States The Jewish Museum, one of the world's largest and most important institutions devoted to exploring the remarkable scope and diversity of Jewish...
Temple Beth Shalom, the Jewish oasis in the “City Different”. Barbara Kingstone January 18, 2011 North America, United States Past the Lutheran Church, just a short walk from the city’s centre, Governor’s quare, in Santa Fe is the Temple Beth Shalom. I was to meet...
The Boardwalk in Atlantic City isn’t just in Monopoly Barbara Kingstone January 18, 2011 North America, United States If you’re a devotee of Monopoly, the board game invented in 1934 by Charles B. Darrow, no matter where you land on the board,...
Las Vegas, whatever happens shouldn’t stay in L.V. It’s a city worthy of mention Barbara Kingstone January 18, 2011 North America, United States Looking down from my 24th floor suite of the newly opened Encore Wynn Hotel ( Dec 08), Steve Wynn’s latest addition to his already hefty list of...
I went to Kansas City, stood on the corner of 12th and Vine, looked for Toto and Dorothy and ate b.b.q. ribs Barbara Kingstone January 18, 2011 North America, United States The Truman house in Independence, MO. The lovely garden in the center of Harry S Truman Museum Some of the clichés about Kansas...
Yiddish Book Center Barbara Kingstone January 18, 2011 North America, United States About 1/8th of a mile from the highway, on the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, among the modern buildings and an apple...