Finally writing my first real post from Israel. Today was fantastic. We started off by waking up early and heading out on our first tiyul to do some archaeological digging. I got to dig around caves looking for pottery, crawl through small passages into larger rooms, and see some very old graves. I learned a bunch of Jewish history about the site we were at, and it was a really cool experience. Sadly, I forgot a memory card for my camera and could not take any pictures.

A bit after we returned to Tzuba, a few of us went up to Tel Tzuba, the ruins of an old crusaders' castle, by far the coolest thing I have yet to see in Israel. There were so many small rooms to go inside and walls and ruins to walk on. We explored the castle for a while and then came back. It is also my first Shabbat in Israel, and I am getting ready for that now. I am excited and will update later.

Hey guys! Today I found out that I need to keep a blog for my Jewish History class, so here it is. I'll be posting twice a week, along with any other small updates and pictures that I take. Some of my posts will have links to articles that I have read and commented on, so you can look at those if you want to. If you don't, that's okay too.

Eli