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Vacationing While Jewish (It’s never just a vacation.)

Summarizing Hana Raviyt Schank in Future of Jewish · Published Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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JL;DR SUMMARY Hana Raviyt Schank's essay details her experiences at a yoga retreat in Malta, shedding light on the cultural clashes and ignorance surrounding Jewish identity and Israel. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish Identity  Stereotypes  Cultural Exchange  Travel  Cultural Misunderstandings  European Perceptions  Yoga Retreat  Maltese Setting 

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"As we drove through a landscape strewn with the detritus of every civilization since the Neolithic Age, I gave her an earful about the reasons wed abandoned New York City for Israel, then segued into a critique of its incoming Jew-hating mayor."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Id tried telling a waiter in Italy that we were from Tel Aviv, and it hadnt gone well."
Malta, Valletta, Malta
"A month earlier Id booked a week at a yoga and meditation retreat in Malta, looking to shed some of the anxiety and trauma Ive accumulated over the years."
Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
"The other guests included an Italian woman living in Copenhagen, a German man living in Malta, an Iraqi woman born in Yemen but now from the U.K., a British woman living in France, and an American man from Ohio who had most recently lived in San Fransisco but was now retired and traveling full-time."
Malta, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
"The other guests included an Italian woman living in Copenhagen, a German man living in Malta, an Iraqi woman born in Yemen but now from the U.K., a British woman living in France, and an American man from Ohio who had most recently lived in San Fransisco but was now retired and traveling full-time."
Ohio, United States
"The other guests included an Italian woman living in Copenhagen, a German man living in Malta, an Iraqi woman born in Yemen but now from the U.K., a British woman living in France, and an American man from Ohio who had most recently lived in San Fransisco but was now retired and traveling full-time."
San Francisco, California, United States
"The other guests included an Italian woman living in Copenhagen, a German man living in Malta, an Iraqi woman born in Yemen but now from the U.K., a British woman living in France, and an American man from Ohio who had most recently lived in San Fransisco but was now retired and traveling full-time."
French Alps, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
"I was worried about coming here from Israel, I later admitted to a British woman living in the French Alps."
County Cork, Cork, Ireland
"I guess Im going to Tel Aviv! said the woman from County Cork."
Maine, United States
"My daughter was working at a historical society in Midcoast Maine, when she came across an advertisement for a tailor with a Jewish name in the local paper from the 1880s."

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