Jerusalem

Pros: Many highly significant historical and religious sights, friendly locals, English widely spoken.
Cons: Not fully at peace.

Imagine yourself walking down a narrow cobble stone street surrounded by medieval buildings, ancient Roman/Jewish artifacts, and entirely foreign languages. You turn a corner and suddenly you find yourself staring at an amazing sight. What you see is the ...

Pros: Outstanding collection of resources and memorials related to the Holocaust
Cons: The necessity for maintaining such a complex

Last year, Pope John Paul II visited and prayed at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. He spoke eloquently about his personal sorrow and the Catholic Church's sorrow over the tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people...

Pros: Interesting recreation of Roman times
Cons: The food wasn't outstanding

During my recent trip to Jerusalem, our group spent the good part of a day investigating the Old City. While there, we were taken to The Cardo Culinaria for lunch, a restaurant certainly different than any I had ever been to.

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Pros: Dynamic world-class university
Cons: Sometimes adversely affected by regional strife

On April 1, 1925, Lord Arthur James Balfour stood on the summit of Mount Scopus (Har Hatsofim, in Hebrew) to dedicate the establishment of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Today, 75 years later, the university looks back proudly on an impressive...

Pros: Extremely moving spiritual site
Cons: Focus of much regional and religious strife

Pros: Ancient and vibrant city
Cons: Occasional acts of war and madness

Few places on Earth give rise to intense emotion as easily or quickly as Jerusalem. Indeed, even the name one applies to this ancient city can provoke controversy: Whether you choose to call it Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, or Al-Quds can be perceived as a...

Pros: The scenery, people, history, food, Holiness, shopping, and fun.
Cons: None

In November 2005, I was lucky enough to get a chance to go to Israel. For some reason, when I thought of Israel, I always pictured a very dusty place, with lots of desert, and people wearing funny hats trying to hurt everyone. (Yeah, I don't get out ...

Pros: Beautiful, holy city
Cons: Make sure you know their customs to avoid trouble.

We had just arrived in Tel Aviv and made the drive into Jerusalem. We were visiting relatives living in a small apartment in Jerusalem. Now, everyone else in my group was tired from the trip. But I was full of excitement and anticipation, and couldn't...

Pros: Helps you to truly comprehend the Holocaust.
Cons: Very emotional, not for younger children.

We went to Israel in February of 1992. I've written several articles about this trip. I have now decided to add an article reviewing the most heartbreaking and emotional part of our trip to Israel; the visit to Yad Vashem.

Yad Vashem means...

Pros: great place for introspection and feeling connected
Cons: none at all

The most spiritual place I have ever prayed is in the Old City of Jerusalem, at the Western Wall, and I'm lucky to have done it more then once. The first time was the most special and effected me the most; I had never before felt so connected to the...

Pros: what I listed in this epinion is a very limited list of what you can do in Jerusalem.
Cons: the bloodshed spilled over the thousands and thousands of years of fighting, intolerance and hatred

Jerusalem is a city one cannot visit; it must be experienced from all angles and perspectives. There is so much to enjoy and absorb that my living there for a semester left me wanting more. It is different from anyplace else on Earth, but it's where I...

Pros: Beautiful, holy place!
Cons: Expensive to travel there.

In February of 1992, my husband and I traveled from our home in Colorado to Jerusalem, for the bris (ritual circumcision) of our 8-day-old nephew. It was just an incredible trip of a lifetime!! Our first morning there, we attended the bris in an Orthodox...

Pros: Sights, sounds and smells from history - unbelievable place
Cons: You should buy water and watch the food you eat to avoid getting sick

I had the unique opportunity of living in Jerusalem for a study abroad program my junior year in college (1996). The experience has changed my life and opened a whole new world of understanding for me...

There is no experience in the world...

Pros: Nothing else like it in the world like Jerusalem!
Cons: Some people are timid about going when there are tensions

Jerusalem is unlike any other place you'll visit. Simply looking up at the Old City from below or looking down on it from the Mount of Olives up on the hill, you're awe struck by the majesty of the Jerusalem stones, the most incredible walled city,...

Pros: non
Cons: city itself

Jerusalem is believed to be the heart of The Holy land.Any one should visit this city if he ever happened to be in Israel.
Jerusalem,standing high amidst the poor Judean hill,has ben crowned as queen of the world's cities for 30 centuries.Blessed...