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May 04, 2007

Podcasting in Jerusalem

I am posting tonight from Aqaba, the Jordanian beach town across the border from Eilat, the Israeli beach town. (Both feature scuba diving in the Red Sea.) Tomorrow we head to Wadi Rum for an overnight tourist tour. We just spent 2 days in Ein Gedi, one of which was probably the only overcast day of the year, and took the scenic route down to Eilat via several of the unique geological formations of the Negev.

Tuesday night we had dinner in the German Colony with Noah Pollak (Azure editor and war zone travel companion of Michael Totten) and Ben Kerstein (Novelist, historian, Kesher Talk co-blogger and proprietor of Diary of an Anti-Chomskyite).

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Fausta did a podcast with Noah and Ben, via Mary's cellphone. We looked on while Ben extemporized on Israeli and international politics and the patient restaurant staff tried to close up.

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Then Noah picked up as we strolled out onto Beit Lehem road in the cool evening. Catch the interview at Fausta's.

Before leaving Jerusalem the next evening we visited with Dave Bognar and family, who gave us a tour of Efrat (about which more after I get home - I'm still digesting it).

Judith | 05/04/07 at 11:59 PM | Categories: Liberal hawks and friends

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