Forget the Eiffel Tower, Where’s the Good Bread? Here’s the thing about immersive food travel: it’s not about being pretentious or hunting down Michelin star restaurants, it’s about understanding the best meal of your life might come from a guy named Juan ducking under steaming pans on a sidewalk in Mexico or in the home […]
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I’m thrilled to be returning to the DEMA Show this year in Orlando to sign my book, BRAVE-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents, and Feeling Fearless After Fifty, in the Author’s Corner. This marks my second time signing at DEMA, after an unforgettable experience in New Orleans in 2023. To come back again, surrounded by this […]
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Turning the Page into 5786: Brave Enough to Begin Again This season has always held the feeling of beginning for me. The month of Elul, leading into Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur… the return to intention, reflection, and renewal. And after so many years in classrooms, September still carries the energy of fresh notebooks, new […]
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There’s nothing quite like returning to New York — a city that celebrates ambition, creativity, and connection at every corner. This visit was one of those rare trips that felt like a full circle moment: honoring milestones, reuniting with friends, celebrating creativity, and being reminded—again—why I fell in love with travel storytelling in the first […]
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Your Ultimate Guide to the Big 5 (and I am not talking about Africa this time!) Pura Ulun Danu Bratan bali indonesia If Asia has been on your bucket list, this is your moment. Japan’s cities are topping global trending destination lists, and the entire “Big Five” region (Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, and Indonesia) is seeing […]
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Summer in Park City has a way of working itself into your soul. One moment you’re hiking beneath glowing aspens—those white-trunked trees that shimmer like something out of Avatar, connected underground in one vast living organism—and the next, you’re stretched out on a blanket at Deer Valley’s Snow Park Amphitheater, watching the stars come out […]
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Ksamil – Butrint National Park, Sarande, Albania. In this blog, we’ll unveil three extraordinary European destinations that deliver authentic travel experiences at unbeatable value. Albania’s untouched Adriatic coastline, where luxury costs a fraction of neighboring countries, to Spain’s mystical Galicia region, where Celtic legends meet dramatic Atlantic shores. You’ll discover Bologna, Italy’s perfect positioning for both Renaissance culture and Lake Garda’s alpine […]
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LENOX, Massachusetts — The new Chabad of the Berkshires here is just down the road from Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and just off the main street (called “Main Street”) where Ethan Frome, the title character in Edith Wharton’s 1911 novella, took an ill-fated sled ride with his wife’s cousin. “We’re […]
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TRONDHEIM, Norway — If ever there was a synagogue that’s earned the right to throw itself a birthday shindig, it’s this elegant and intriguing house of worship in central Norway only 220 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Over the past century, the Trondheim Synagogue has weathered isolation from the rest of the Jewish world; […]
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May News 2025 Niver’s Newsletter 185 May brought a wave of honors and meaningful moments I’m incredibly grateful to share. I’m thrilled to announce that my Ireland TV segment, “Celtic Charm,” on The Jet Set TV won a Telly Award (there were 13,000 entries), and I’m a five-time finalist for the upcoming Southern California Journalism Awards, […]
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