{"id":163,"date":"2012-10-23T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T17:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/?p=163"},"modified":"2012-10-23T20:17:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T17:17:37","slug":"rosh-pina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/rosh-pina\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosh Pina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, Sept 29th.<\/strong> \u00a0Today we visited Rosh Pina, a small town and artist colony in the north of Israel, in the Upper\u00a0Galilee\u00a0on the eastern slopes of Mount Kna’anin. \u00a0Rosh Pina was settled in 1882 by Romanian Jews. \u00a0At the time, the area was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Rosh Pina is one of the oldest Zionist settlements in Israel and literally means “cornerstone.” \u00a0The early Romanians, determined to build a village from which they could eek out a living, named the village from Psalms 118:22 “The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.” \u00a0The original 30 families derived their\u00a0livelihood\u00a0from the production of silkworms using mulberry trees donated by the\u00a0philanthropist\u00a0Baron Edmond de Rothschild. \u00a0However, lacking a source of edible agriculture, the community did not survive and was\u00a0abandoned\u00a0for many years. \u00a0Recently it has become a thriving tourist town with lovely,\u00a0extensive,\u00a0terraced gardens containing the original mulberry trees.
\nWe stayed overnight at Ahuzat Hameiri, a lovely mansion that has been in the Hameiri family since it was built in the late 1880s (photos below). \u00a0We had a lovely dinner at Auberge Shulamit. The food was delicious and the wine (Odem Mountain Winery) that the next day we drove to the Golan Heights to visit the winery!<\/p>\n

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Hamerei Mansion where we stayed overnight at Rosh Pina<\/p>\n

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Entrance to our room at Hamerei<\/p>\n

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The jacuzzi in our room!<\/p>\n

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Our room! \u00a0Check out all of the stained glass!<\/p>\n

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The private terrace outside our room – all for us!<\/p>\n

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Rosh Pina is filled with paving stones and buildings made out of stone, similar to the “Jerusalem” stone found in Jerusalem. \u00a0For my geo friends, Jerusalem stone is limestone but with a very characteristic pale color. \u00a0I’m not sure if the stone in Rosh Pina is also a form of limestone, but I’ll bet it is.<\/p>\n

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Breakfast was on a lovely terrace overlooking the valley.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, Sept 29th. \u00a0Today we visited Rosh Pina, a small town and artist colony in the north of Israel, in the Upper\u00a0Galilee\u00a0on the eastern slopes of Mount Kna’anin. \u00a0Rosh Pina was settled in 1882 by Romanian Jews. \u00a0At the time, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}