Blockshop Textiles has a good, succinct Joshua Tree guide on their website that was a great starting point. Per their recomendation, Joshua Tree Saloon ended up being my jam. I was a short-term regular during my month-long stint in town. My friends and I joked that it’s the best...
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The fact that Israel happens to be breathtakingly beautiful is in many ways an afterthought, an added bonus. I would feel a deeply spiritual love for the land even if it were nondescript or downright hideous. But, oh, how it’s not. From the Hula Valley, where indigenous plants and...
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Karen Lehrman Bloch, curator of the book and traveling exhibition Passage to Israel, is on a world tour sharing her love for the Holy Land. Hers are complex feelings, which she conveys in this special essay for Fathom. Our favorite photos from the book cast the contentious country in...
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Our driver started talking to a construction crew finishing their bowls of mild broth filled with handmade noodles and spiked with clusters of pork, fish cakes, and veggies. For anyone who wants to understand what culinary mashups in Hawaii taste like, this is a most excellent specimen. (In this...
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