Episodes

  • Beijing, China: Eastern promise that delivers

    Beijing, China: Eastern promise that delivers
    Nov 12 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:
    • 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 Square
    • Welcome to the Forbidden Ci
    • The fruit stinks. But we'll eat it anyway
    Mark and David host The Jerusalem Post Podcast – Travel Edition. They were the guests of The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
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    56 mins
  • Thessaloniki, Greece - the greatest Jewish epic?

    Thessaloniki, Greece - the greatest Jewish epic?
    Oct 28 2024
    Jewish community member and guide Hella Kounio-Matalon takes podcast hosts Mark and David on a whistlestop tour of more than 2,000 years of history, in a city where Jews were the majority for five centuries.

    This time:
    • Alexander the Great's Jewish entourage
    • They came in their thousands from Spain, Portugal and Italy
    • Inside today's community
    • A musical trip into the surviving pre-Holocaust synagogue
    • When to travel, getting there, lodgings and food
    • Tracing the past: the excellent Jewish museum
    • Europe's largest cemetery is no more
    • Of Thessaloniki mansions
    • There's got to be a Chabad restaurant
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    49 mins
  • Post Oct 7 reflections from El Al and an Israeli tour operator

    Post Oct 7 reflections from El Al and an Israeli tour operator
    Oct 15 2024
    With COVID behind us, we thought travel and tourism would return to normal. But in Israel, that hope was short-lived. On Simhat Torah, October 7, 2023, Israel was dragged into a war on multiple fronts. Podcast hosts Mark Gordon and David Harris look at the industry a year later, in the company of EL AL's Chief Counsel Sharon Brownstone and Kim Melchior, the co-CEO of IGT - Israel & Global Travel.
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    37 mins
  • From world records to hosting Jewish refugees - Shanghai has it all

    From world records to hosting Jewish refugees - Shanghai has it all
    Sep 30 2024
    Join Mark and David for part two of their Chinese odyssey. Shanghai is one of the world's great cities in every sense: population, food, business, skyscrapers and yes, Jewish history.

    This time:
    • In friendship with Israel
    • Fancy a drop of port?
    • Nanjing Road is just wall-to-wall people
    • Michaelangelo in China? Well, in cocoa butter, anyway
    • Tnuva and China?
    • We take you down Chinese memory lane
    • How to get there, where to stay and more great travel advice
    • How 50 companies are doing big business in a China-Israel innovation park
    • Think tank thanks
    • Sailing on the Huangpu
    • The wonderful Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
    • Top tips for traveling to China
    • Farewell at 350 km/h
    Mark and David host The Jerusalem Post Podcast – Travel Edition. They were the guests of The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).
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    48 mins
  • Krakow's Jewish Culture Festival is so much more than a Yiddle with a fiddle

    Krakow's Jewish Culture Festival is so much more than a Yiddle with a fiddle
    Sep 16 2024
    Krakow is already gearing up for the 34th edition of its international Jewish Culture Festival scheduled for summer 2025. Our podcast hosts Mark and David attended festival #33 from where they bring you the sounds and sights of this wondrous city and introduce you to the people behind one of the world's largest Jewish arts gatherings.

    This time:

    - Krakow for Kulture
    - Janusz has done this 33 times and he isn't even Jewish
    - Not just Klezmer in Kazimierz
    - The Muslim macher
    - A side trip to the Galicia Jewish Museum
    - Everything you need to know about a visit to Krakow - flights, hotels, kosher food and more
    - It's a small Jewish world after all. Mark has a friend!
    - It's all pants with David
    - Listen to the music: Israeli, klezmer, African and Asian
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    48 mins
  • The Red Village: The last Jewish Shtetl? And other Azerbaijani gems

    The Red Village: The last Jewish Shtetl? And other Azerbaijani gems
    Sep 3 2024
    We take you into the Caucasus Mountains in Azerbaijan to visit what is said to be the last living shtetl in the world outside of Israel. We learn the history of the "Red Village" and visit its working synagogues. Then, we go deep into the countryside of this beautiful country that borders the Caspian Sea.

    This time:
    • What is the "Red Village" aka Qırmızı Qəsəbə?
    • A tour of the amazing Jewish museum
    • Mountain Jews' synagogues
    • Where Jews and Muslims live side by side
    • How to get there? Where to stay?
    • Overlooking Shamakhi
    • The tombs of great past leaders
    • A blacksmith takes us behind the scenes
    • Fine wines from saplings to samplings
    Mark and David were guests of the Azerbaijan Tourism Board and Azerbaijan Airlines.
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    47 mins
  • Q. What goes from zero to 22 million in 45 years? A. Shenzhen, China

    Q. What goes from zero to 22 million in 45 years? A. Shenzhen, China
    Aug 19 2024
    Shenzhen is the remarkable embarkation point for Mark and David's Chinese odyssey. The city has strong links with Israel, particularly in the world of technology. By 2035, transport chiefs say there'll be drone helicopters ferrying passengers above the city's burgeoning skyscrapers. Join the boys on this special voyage of discovery.

    Mark and David host The Jerusalem Post Podcast – Travel Edition. They were the guests of The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
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    43 mins
  • From tropical paradise to the roof of the world

    From tropical paradise to the roof of the world
    Aug 5 2024
    The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 87

    Mark and David host El Salvador's Ambassador to Israel Milton Eduardo Umaña Acevedo to learn about the great things to do and eat in this Central American paradise.

    Then, travel writer Jessica Mudditt pops in to talk about her time in Tibet, how to get there and answers the question: Do you have to be physically fit to enjoy a trip to this spiritually- and topographically-elevated nation?
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    35 mins