Eliezer: Don't you live in a town called "Redwood". Aren't half the trees around your home older than that church tower? I'm surprised you never went to Israel as a kid.

Still, traveling to Oxford last summer did touch me in that manner as well. Even more so Greece, which I identified with far more strongly than with Israel. Strangely, the movie "Pan's Labyrinth" also produces that effect very nicely.