We take you to what some believe is the world's oldest synagogue and it's right next door to the homes of podcast hosts Mark and David in Modi'in, Israel.

 This week's adventure takes in the Hanukkah story, a fabulous museum and oily baked comestibles of course. This time:

• A donut breakfast
• The world's oldest synagogue?
• The hip Maccabean graves
• A donut lunch
• Useful travel tips for Modi'in
• A great little gem of a museum
• Modi'in gets its first hotel!
• Surely not a donut dinner?

Just a two-hour flight from Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki is everything a tourist would want: ancient ruins, UNESCO monuments, great food, a gorgeous boardwalk, theaters, excellent boutique shops and of course our travel podcast hosts Mark and David. This time:

• Strolling the beautiful downtown and seafront
• Why is it called the White Tower if it isn't...?
• City walls with stunning views
• When to visit, how to get there, where to stay and kosher details
• From peacocks to Baptisms
• Brunch like no other
• She sells olives but we want the booze
• One of the oldest churches, with a Jewish twist
• Sounds funny but why is it called Moldee?

Join us for 2,700 years of history at the Tower of David.

We reveal insider stories about Donald Trump, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy and other world leaders from their stays at the King David Hotel (Who had a thing for dressing gowns?) And we take you to meet Elvis Presley in the Jerusalem hills. 

Join Mark and David for a bumper edition of the podcast.

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)

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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)