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Take a trip around the world with Mark Gordon and David Harris.
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17 MAR 2025 · Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, is very different from glitzy Dubai, up the road. Podcast hosts Mark and David discover the beauty of the Middle East's largest mosque and unity in the Abrahamic faiths before heading into the Empty Quarter for some desert fun with Costa excursions. This time:Â
- Is it a mosque or a shopping mall?
- The marble, the mausoleum, the majesty
- World-record breakers
- How to get there, where to stay and kosher options
- *Where Muslims, Christians and Jews come together
- It's not just a yeshiva thing!
- What can I do in Abu Dhabi?
- 4x4 off-roading through the desert
- David gets a little too close to his camel friends
- He's so dizzy, his head is spinning like a whirlpool
- Belly dancing time - surely Mark and David aren't about to...?
3 MAR 2025 · In four years of podcasting, we've visited a lot of Jewish communities, some of them in places you'd perhaps least expect to find a minyan! In this tour de force, we take you to 10 Jewish locations around the world through chat and music - among them: Salt Spring Island, Canada; Baku, Azerbaijan; Mallorca; Spain; and the very appropriately-named Bridgetown, Barbados.
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17 FEB 2025 · The theme is definitely Italian as Mark and David head for the high seas aboard the Costa Smerelda. This time:Â
- Boarding in Abu Dhabi
- First impressions of a Costa Cruises ship
- Safety first
- The fabulous food offering
- What to do on board
- A show in the Colossuem (No lions)
- Dancing the night away
- The morning after the night before
- Getting to know the Costa ethos
- What a 360°-view off Dubai
- A design museum on a ship!
- From Chianti with love - wine tasting on board
- Acrobatics in a colosseum (Still no lions)
- Reflections
3 FEB 2025 · Despite all the predictions from experts, friends, families and social-media critics, we've made it to episode 100! In typical Mark and David celebratory style, we bring you the highs and lows of four years of podcasting including looks back at hazzanut in Uzbekistan, kosher gumbo, Chinese street performers and hot-air ballooning in Lithuania.
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21 JAN 2025 · Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Jan. 27, Mark and David present a special episode of the podcast from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. They take you behind the scenes into the new Collections Center and sit down for a frank, in-depth conversation with Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan.Â
What is the role of Yad Vashem and Holocaust education 80 years on?
6 JAN 2025 · Jaffa really is the original Tel Aviv, literally in the Biblical sense. Join podcast hosts Mark and David as they explore the historic and modern in this old-world port city. Â
This time:
- Underground, overground
- Traveling the new light railway
- What do Phil Collins, Rihanna and Barbara Streisand have in common?
- Clash of the Maccabi-Hapoel titans at The BloomfieldÂ
- How to get there, where to stay and eat and more helpful tipsÂ
- From jail time to clock time
- "Please touch" in the fabulous Na Laga'at Center for the sensorily impaired
- The boys take in some art - Sunset by the Mediterranean
23 DEC 2024 · We take you to what some believe is the world's oldest synagogue and it's right next door to the homes of podcast hosts Mark and David in Modi'in, Israel.
 This week's adventure takes in the Hanukkah story, a fabulous museum and oily baked comestibles of course. This time:
- A donut breakfast
- The world's oldest synagogue?
- The hip Maccabean graves
- A donut lunch
- Useful travel tips for Modi'in
- A great little gem of a museum
- Modi'in gets its first hotel!
- Surely not a donut dinner?
9 DEC 2024 · Just a two-hour flight from Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki is everything a tourist would want: ancient ruins, UNESCO monuments, great food, a gorgeous boardwalk, theaters, excellent boutique shops and of course our travel podcast hosts Mark and David. This time:
- Strolling the beautiful downtown and seafront
- Why is it called the White Tower if it isn't...?
- City walls with stunning views
- When to visit, how to get there, where to stay and kosher details
- From peacocks to Baptisms
- Brunch like no other
- She sells olives but we want the booze
- One of the oldest churches, with a Jewish twist
- Sounds funny but why is it called Moldee?
25 NOV 2024 · Join us for 2,700 years of history at the Tower of David.
We reveal insider stories about Donald Trump, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy and other world leaders from their stays at the King David Hotel (Who had a thing for dressing gowns?) And we take you to meet Elvis Presley in the Jerusalem hills.Â
Join Mark and David for a bumper edition of the podcast.
12 NOV 2024 · Join Mark and David for part three of their Chinese odyssey. Beijing tells a story that is three thousand years in the making. Our podcast brings it to you in just under one hour.
This time:Â
- On the Shanghai-Beijing bullet train
- The truly Great Wall of China
- How to get there, when to travel and where to stay
- The making of a Peking Duck
- The Buddah of the rickshaw
- Top tips for travel to China -
- Wonderous acrobatics
- Where emperors prayed alone
- Mark and David become the stars of Tiananmen SquareÂ
- Welcome to the Forbidden Ci
- The fruit stinks. But we'll eat it anyway
Mark and David host https://www.jpost.com/podcast/travel-edition. They were the guests of https://www.cpaffc.org.cn/index/index/index/lang/2.htmlhttps://www.cpaffc.org.cn/index/index/index/lang/2.html
Take a trip around the world with Mark Gordon and David Harris.
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