We drove late Friday night from Tel Aviv to the Dead Sea so that we could spend the night at the foot of Masada, poised for a pre-dawn climb to the top to see the sunrise over the Jordan mountains. This is something I have been looking forward to seeing since reading about the Jews at Masada in a novel called "The Dovekeepers" by Alice Hoffman. The book is historical fiction which tells the story of a woman who is ejected from Jerusalem at the time of the destru...

We drove late Friday night from Tel Aviv to the Dead Sea so that we could spend the night at the foot of Masada, poised for a pre-dawn climb to the top to see the sunrise over the Jordan mountains. This is something I have been looking forward to seeing since reading about the Jews at Masada in a novel called "The Dovekeepers" by Alice Hoffman. The book is historical fiction which tells the story of a woman who is ejected from Jerusalem at the time of the destru...