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05/07/2024

Wreckage from the last night and its garden theme.

05/01/2024

From Prague to NYC with Cicerone

April 30, 2024 May 2024 Newsletter - From Prague to NYC with Cicerone April 30, 2024/ Jonathan Goldstein Hi All, It’s been a robust start to Spring, filled with international travel, flashes of sunshine, and flowers in bloom. We’ve also had a full holiday season; with Eid al Fitr (the conclusio...

04/04/2024

True icon of the Garment District ! Such a gem!

Thanks for the lead!

04/02/2024

Hotboi never gets old

03/22/2024

Cicerone / Gingi Tours (Jonathan Goldstein): March 2024 Updates - https://mailchi.mp/040f0e06e8e9/cicerone-gingi-tours-jonathan-goldstein-march-2024-updates

10/08/2023

Standing with Hatshepsut, the most powerful individual on earth for 20 years in the 15th century BC The Met; she reigned for 20 years before her step-son tried to erase her from the historical record.

10/06/2023

Bite between tours

10/06/2023

Tasting the immigrant foods of the Lower East Side Russ & Daughters!

10/04/2023

Hot tip: The Met - roof access is only available for a few more weeks before Persephone brings it to the underworld for winter.

07/29/2023

How we summer at in NYC!

07/28/2023

Breakfast with

12/07/2022

The best thing to happen to anyone anywhere

11/29/2022

Recent addition to the , - trade in your used books for homemade pickles? The immigrant tradition of the lower east side still lives!

11/10/2022

I love when the opens the doors to the old Ansche Chesed building in the Lower East Side.

10/26/2022

The holy grail of jewish deli . The delicatessen comes from German immigrants, corning meat from the Irish, and the pastrama curing spice mixture from Romanians. Put it all together in the Jewish Lower East and you have an American-Jewish immigrant cuisine unrecognisable to the Old Country from whence those immigrants came.

10/13/2022

In Marcus Garvey Park atop Mount Morris stands the last of the nineteenth century watchtowers to monitor potential fires on Manhattan Island in the heart of Harlem.

08/19/2022

Thirsty in Times Square? Cannot miss in . Right across the lobby from if you’d you like servers to belt out showtunes between courses;)

08/18/2022

A strong man of Greek mythology (Atlas) staring down the most important Catholic Church in NYC .

08/11/2022

Learning about the desserts of Old Jerusalem with at . Cannot recommend highly enough.

08/08/2022

The smallest size of the nom nom cookie . Surreal is the word. Rest of the day is a blur.

07/11/2022

I wish I could capture the magic of the at and the mountains of Moab in reflecting the light of the setting sun along the

06/09/2022

Only problem with the observatory on the is you always want it in the picture of the skyline. ❤️ .nyc

06/08/2022

The Bialystoker Synagogue is one of the last four functioning synagogues of the Lower East Side (there were over 600 in the year 1900). Rumored to have been a station on the Underground Railroad, it’s a beacon of hope and opportunity for those fleeing from oppression. Today we’re meeting with to forge a new partnership. Can’t wait to see where it leads. Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery] Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery]

06/04/2022

Brooklyn Street party. Across from the country’s most beautiful cemetery erected on the site of the largest battle of the Revolutionary War .

05/25/2022

Attacked by

04/03/2022

Two thousand year old tombs in Jerusalem that inform about the Easter story. Jerusalem’s limestone geology yields lots of caves used for burials since the dawn of civilization. Family tombs would have a stone slab (see the benches in pic 1) where the body of the deceased would lay for a year or so until the flesh decomposed. Then after a year, family members would collect the bones into a bone-box (see pic 2) called an ossuary. The ossuary is the slid into the wall niches in the walls of pic 1. Jesus’ ancestral heritage was in Bethlehem, his family in Nazareth, but he was crucified in Jerusalem. So a follower, Joseph of Arimathea, donated his tomb for Jesus. If Jesus was a typical story from the time, his bones would have been collected after the flesh decomposed for a year, places in an ossuary, then slid into a niche, and the stone slab reused by the next deceased individual.

04/02/2022

The Dead Sea is the lowest place on the surface of the earth, and getting lower all the time. Every year the water level drops another meter in depth (many more in shore line). Along its shores there is a marking from geographers for the marked the water level from 1913 - noting that the highway next to the rock would have been under water back then, but today is some 150 feet above the water level.

03/18/2022

Groups are back in . It’s been a minute, but the student season in the city is opening with a choir at the oculus.

03/10/2022

In the Main Hall of , there are two million artefacts as old as 5,000 years but the newest is always less than one week. The floral arrangements are changed to reflect the seasons (not adjusted yet for global warming) since Lila Acheson Wallace of fame gave a specific endowment in 1970.

01/06/2022

“Hands up! Can’t you see? We’re losing our democracy!”

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Groups are back in #nyc. It’s been a minute, but the student season in the city is opening with a choir at the oculus. #brainerd #touringny @charactours @dcgwestfields @wtc #tourguidelife

“Hands up! Can’t you see? We’re losing our democracy!” @nypl

What a day to be in Brooklyn.

Day 3 of 5: the Dutch sign gave google translate a tough time, but it seems that this paradise of sea marsh, birds, flowers, grazing animals, and windmills was the work of 14th century fairy dust. #fairytales #seamarsh #windmills #birding #dutchcoast #bikepacking #biking #cycling #tourguidelife #travelback @udigoren @yoniavital1

Queen doing a mic check for @globalcitizenfestival ended up as a free private concert for the few who happened to be in @centralparknyc’s #greatlawn this afternoon. The lawn itself was once upon a time a giant reservoir, part of the Croton Aqueduct built 150 years ago to bring fresh water into the epidemic-plagued metropolis. It was filled in at the beginning of the 20th C, has hosted concerts from Diana Ross, Garth Brooks and Paul Simon. Tomorrow, the festival has a crazy lineup raising money for addressing poverty... and have a good time. @officialqueenmusic @adamlambert #nyc #history #tourguidelife

Going to be the coldest Macy's ever (and coldest Thanksgiving in #nyc 1871, but the Central Park band shell is hot with Keller, Texas’s marching band! #thanksgiving #kellermarchingband #macys #parade #holiday #holidayseason @kellerhighschoolofficial

First time looking into an open, active volcano @guadeloupe’s #lagrandesoufriere. Also, first stop at a volcano since guiding tours American Museum of Natural History. Neil deGrasse Tyson, do you have a recommendation for an hour-long podcast on why the earth developed into a planet inhabitable by life, including the atmosphere, electromagnetic field, as well as the unique evolution of tectonic plates? #bigbangtheory #evolution #volcanicactivity #liquidhotmagma #whyistheskyblue #caribbean #guadeloupe

Prepping the finest knafeh on earth @alaqsasweetco in #nablus. A traditional Palestinian dessert, instead of shredded wheat dyed orange, here we have a particularly generous cheese ratio on semolina. You can find it just across the street from the legendary @albadersoapfactory #travel #tourguidelife #holyland #palestine #nablusoldcity #landofthebible #travelgram #unescoworldheritagesite

This bubbling mountain stream is known in Arabic as Ein Jaloud, the spring if Goliath. Named for the most famous Philistine, it lies at the foot of Mount Gilboa where the Biblical battle between the Philistines and King Saul took place 3,000 years ago. Here, in 1260, the Islamic warrior-slave, Baibars, who rose up to create a new dynasty stopped the onslaught of the Mongol Empire, largest in human history. The spring is the furthest point southwest the Mongols reached. In the Book of Judges, the spring is known as Ein Haroud, where Gideon brought his exhausted soldiers to quench their thirst after long days of training before battling the Canaanite Mideanites. #history #worldheritage #galilee #jezrealvalley #gilboa #einjaloud #einharoud #baibars #mongolempire #gameofthrones #bible #holyland #israeltour @israelnationalparks @israel_museum

Learning to make Fatayer at a home hospitality cooking workingshop in the Druze village of Yarka in the Galilee. The Druze have lived in the Galilee for a thousand years and have a rich culinary tradition closely tied to the land. We enjoyed homemade olive oil, local herbs and spices, fresh seasonal vegetables. The greens in the picture are local zaatar (hyssop) and, once stuffed, those doughy bad boys are getting ready to be thrown on a flat stove over an open fire. @galileat #galilee #druze #holyland #gourmet #cookingworkshop #hospitality #travelgram #travel #tourguide #tourguidelife #ciceronetravel #culinary

A little bit of rain cannot diminish the awesomeness of Florence. Seldom in human history has there been such bursts of creative energy like this city saw in the Renaissance. #travelgram #renaissance #florence #italy #piazzelemichelangelo #duomo #brunelleschi #ghiberti #donatello #mossaccio #leonardodavinci #michelangelo #vespucci #galileo #petrarch #dante #boccaccio #vasari #medici #templeisrael

So many know of Grammercy Park, so few have entered. The odd gated private park in the heart of Manhattan that defied the 1811 grid and first understood how to value the island’s precious real estate. The statue in the center is Edwin Booth, the greatest Hamlet in the 19th Century U.S. and the brother of the country’s most infamous assassins, John Wilkes Booth. #grammercypark #lincoln #edwinbooth #assassin #travelgram #tour #nyc #ciceronetravel #manhattan #teddyroosevelt #jimmyfallon

All of Philly is green tonight!!!! #eagles

And it’s still Christmas in Bethlehem as well. Lights, tree, and nativity scene built over the actual remains of the original locale. #christmas #nativityscene #bethlehem #tistheseason #travelgram #tourguide #tour #ciceronetravel @mangersquare

Merry Orthodox Christmas from Belgrade! This is one festive nativity scene. #tour #tourguide #unintendedlayover #belgrade #serbia #balkans #formeryugoslavia #saintsavatemple #orthodoxchristmas #ciceronetravel #travelgram

Happy Hanukkah from the Bowery Ballroom and the first of Yo La Tengo’s Hanukkah shows. #happyhanukkah #yolatengo #boweryballroom #festivaloflights #toddbarry #bobodenkirk

Love those west-looking beach cities at dusk. #telaviv #mediterraneansea #jaffa #holyland #israel #tourguidelife #travelgram #whyisitdarksoearly

HaMidbar Midaber: “The desert speaks.” Here, in the Biblical wilderness that at varying times hosted Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, we soak up some spiritual inspiration in a unique geological formation - a Makhtesh, a crater-like formation that is essentially the belly of a completely eroded mountain ridge. #machtesh #mizperamon #negev #bible #wilderness #revelation #notacrater @deep_desert_israel