Remembrance Day Ends, Independence Day Begins

By Billye Brim | May 13, 2024 |

Yesterday we went to the shopping area of Ein Bokek. As we sat at a table outside the mini-market we heard a clean-cut young man about 17 or 18 years old ask a question of an Israeli woman in English. We took up a conversation with him. He is from Vancouver B.C. and in this Land with a Jewish youth group. We talked a while and explained  who we are—Zionist Christians and what that means, etc. 

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A Day of Remembrance. A Day of Celebration.

By Billye Brim | May 12, 2024 |

I just came back inside my room. I had stepped outside on this balmy desert evening a few minutes before 8 PM. I knew that a one-minute siren would sound throughout the state of  Israel to mark the start of Yom HaZikaron. In English that’s Remembrance Day. A Day for the Fallen Soldiers of the Wars of Israel and Victims of Terrorism.

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Very Early Shabbat Morning

By Billye Brim | May 11, 2024 |

3:50 AM I was wide awake. That’s how it goes—at first. Glad to see my kumkum (קוּמְקוּם). Every hotel room in the Land has one. A super-fast-heating electric kettle. Very hot for tea or coffee.

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