You're in luck - they're giving out this edition of JA for free in many shuls!
KT
joel rich | 06.11.09 - 2:16 pm | #

And Baka al-Sharkiya is Valley of the Whistlers?
manuscript boy | Homepage | 06.11.09 - 2:20 pm | #

my favorite is Wadi al-Joz... "Wadi of the *Jews"
Steg (dos iz nit der shteg) | Homepage | 06.12.09 - 2:05 pm | #

When I start giving tours to Megiddo I am so playing Armaggedon on the bus to get ppl in the mood. BTW, interesting Tour Tidbit: While expanding the prison grounds at Tzomet Megiddo this past year, they found the remains of a very early (4th c) church mosaic floor. Just goes to show that Christians took this place seriously right from the get-go.
Tamar | 06.15.09 - 9:32 am | #

Steg - I think it's actually "Valley of the Nut" (Joz = Egoz).
ADDeRabbi | Homepage | 06.15.09 - 10:57 am | #

You sure it's not an Arabization of Nachal Yehoshafat, one of the various nicknames for Nachal Kidron?
Tamar | 06.16.09 - 8:01 am | #

Baka al 'Arbiyah = West Baka ('Arbiyah=maarav in Hebrew)
Baka al Sharkiya = East Baka

Look at a West Bank map for villages with Arbiyah/Sharkiya in their names, you'll see there too that one is west of the other.
Shlomo | 06.16.09 - 3:54 pm | #

ADDeRabbi:

I know, i was just pointing out the pun.
Steg (dos iz nit der shteg) | Homepage | 06.20.09 - 11:43 pm | #