Sept News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel: Shana Tova 5783! This month starts the Jewish New Year. My family celebrated in Denver with our cousins and at our synagogue, Stephen Wise Temple, in Los Angeles. My parents were honored with an aliyah to say the blessing before reading the Torah. This reading … Continued
August News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel: I hope that this summer you have been able to get outside and recharge. I am grateful for all of the good things that have happened in August. Thank you Afluencer! I am honored to be your #3 Travel Influencer of 2022. View this post … Continued
July News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel: THANK YOU Los Angeles Press Club! I was a finalist at the 64th Southern California Journalism Awards for book critic! This was my 20th nomination and I have won 5 times! VIDEO from the event This summer I went to my 102nd country! Iceland–where I … Continued
June News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel: This month I was a finalist at the 64th Southern California Journalism Awards for book critic! It was my TWENTIETH (20th!) nomination and I have won FIVE times so far! I am now represented by Chip MacGregor of MacGregor Literary, Inc. I went on a dream … Continued
May News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel: Thank you to Gizem and her Turkish Coffee Lady Foundation for inviting me to be the keynote speaker at Premier of the “Turkish Coffee Tales of Anatolia” documentary at the Turkish Consul General’s Residence. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lisa Niver … Continued
Pasadena is relatively close to where I live in Los Angeles and during COViD I explored more of it. You may think of Pasadena as the place for the Rose Bowl football game, the Tournament of Roses Parade as well as the place where Jet Propulsion lab, Caltech and ArtCenter College of Design make change … Continued
This is Not Your Parents’ Hebrew School: Wise CYE and Leo Baeck Are Reinventing Jewish Education On Sunday May 1, 2022, families at Stephen Wise Temple’s Center for Youth Engagement (CYE) celebrated an academic year unlike any other in the temple’s 58-year history, one which marked a re-imagining of Jewish education for children attending secular … Continued
April News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel: I absolutely LOVE Scuba DIVING and am so honored that I was invited to be a speaker at the Scuba Show on May 14, 2022. CLICK HERE to read about my topic, “Diving off the COVID Rust! Thank you to Tourism Australia, The Best of … Continued
It has been a change in Los Angeles that we have started to have travel events again!Where do you want to go? Welcome back and say G’day because: “There’s nothing like Australia!” I have loved my travels down under in OZ and cannot wait to return. Thank you to Tourism Australia for tasty treats from … Continued
March News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel: My thoughts are with the people of the Ukraine and their incredible president, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy. Many people have asked how they can help–here are six articles I published with ways to HELP: #StandWithUkraine GoFundMe with Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Airbnb and Flexport Help the … Continued