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Forest Hills Travels: Jews are flocking to Portugal, and not for the first time

September 18, 2019 by FHC 1 Comment

by Marlene Berlin When my husband Jim and I decided to visit Portugal this summer, we didn’t know we would join large numbers of tourists vacationing there. We also learned later that many of the people flocking to Portugal are planning to stay. Thousands of Jews are applying for Portuguese citizenship, centuries after their ancestors […]

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Dispatches from Riyadh: To market, to market for camels and dates

October 12, 2018 by FHC

Laurie Sieminski is a neighbor and master quilter who is spending four years in Riyadh with her husband Adam while he serves as president of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (referred to as KAPSARC in her writings). She’s been sending dispatches to her friends in Forest Hills and has given us permission […]

Filed Under: Meet the Neighbors, Travel

Meet Your Neighbors update – from Riyadh: “Life Here Comes With a Warning”

July 31, 2018 by FHC

On July 16th, the high in DC reached 98 degrees and what may have been the hottest temperature we’ll see all summer. In Saudi Arabia, that would have been seen as a cooling trend. Laurie Sieminski is in Riyadh with her husband Adam, who accepted a four-year stint as president of the King Abdullah Petroleum […]

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Neighbors Recommend: Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

January 7, 2016 by FHC

David Cohen, a reader and frequent contributor, writes: “In honor of the New Year, permit me to recommend a day trip to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, Maryland, less than a two-hour drive from us.” Cohen took these photos on December 27, 2015, from the five-mile wildlife drive: Blackwater, a waterfowl sanctuary, looks […]

Filed Under: Local Wildlife, Travel

Forest Hills resident’s photo chosen for national Parkinson’s awareness calendar

January 29, 2015 by Patricia

Fantastic news about a Forest Hills Connection contributor and neighbor: Forest Hills resident Pat Davies is getting creative in the fight against Parkinson’s disease. A photograph she took of women in Sapa, in the north of Vietnam, has been selected to appear in the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation’s (PDF) 2015 Creativity and Parkinson’s Calendar, and is […]

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Where we go: Biking in Bali

January 23, 2015 by FHC

I cannot keep up with Jan and Jack Buresh’s travel schedule. When we caught up with each other at a neighbor’s party, they told me they had gone back to Bali. Of course, I could not resist tapping Jack for a story – and a taste of sun, warmth and the exotic. – Marlene Berlin […]

Filed Under: Style, Travel

Memories of Prague, 1986

October 2, 2014 by FHC

by Margery Elfin It was summer 1986 and we had decided to go to Eastern Europe. The Cold War was mostly over, although it would be three more years before the Berlin Wall would come down. We were interested in seeing what was going on in what was then called Czechoslovakia, a country emerging from […]

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My schmatte: Lost and found in Prague this summer

October 2, 2014 by FHC

by Marlene Berlin Somewhere between the Prague airport and our lodgings on the edge of Old Town, I lost my light gray jacket, my schmatte. That’s a Yiddish term for a well-worn and loved piece of clothing. I must have been distracted by the discussion with our taxi driver about the movie Amadeus and the […]

Filed Under: Style, Travel

What I did this summer: Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean Sea

September 5, 2014 by FHC

by David Jonas Bardin Tel Aviv is a Mediterranean city which my wife Livia and I rarely visited when we lived in Jerusalem 40 years ago, and only briefly since then, in the course of multi-venue tours. We remedied that in August, when we spent a week’s vacation there, staying a block away from Tel […]

Filed Under: Meet the Neighbors, Style, Travel

Summer Travel Scrapbook: Hiking The Dolomites

July 3, 2014 by FHC

This article was originally published in December, 2012. by Annette Aburdene After years of walking in the Swiss and Western Alps, it was exciting to be back last September in the Dolomites and on the breathtaking High Trails, Alta Vie Nos. 1 and 3. Tucked in the northeastern corner of Italy close to the border […]

Filed Under: Travel

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