Every time I travel I have the odd sensation of feeling like a stranger in a strange new place–especially when I don’t know the language. There is always a lurking feeling somewhere in my gut of a certain non-belonging, a visceral voice…
Wednesday was a day of reflection and good feeling. We started the day together with Avi in Tel Aviv, learning more about modern Israel’s history with a very informative and entertaining speaker at the hall of independence. Yet again, I found myself…
Albuquerque Ruth Inspired by our visit to the tomb of Hannah Senesh and other heroes, and to the candle lighting Friday night at the home of Chaim Dovid and his wife. Roughly to the following rhythm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-aPyU1o8iM Links for each woman…
Hula Swamp Here’s the tune. Sing along (finger snapping optional): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuzkiCBuJ5c (Chorus): The farmers whistled, but the birds all bristled When they drained the Hula swamp. It was really dire when the peat caught fire When they drained the Hula swamp. Whoa…
Most of the teachers have returned to the United States with possibly a few staying here in Israel a few days. I thought you might like to see what a study seminar looks like or at least what a montage of the…
Posted by Mindy Small: We walked from our bus to meet a special man, Chaim Dovid, an American who made Aliyah to the old city of Jerusalem many years ago. Tsipy arranged our meeting. Chaim Dovid walked with us in the old…
On Sunday, we boarded the bus and headed to Yad Vashem. As I was boarding the bus, I was already anticipating it to be a difficult and somber day as we would be studying the history of the Holocaust. As we entered…
Finally! I took the famous float in the Dead Sea. While I was floating around with hands and feet in the air, I found myself thinking about my first grade class this past year. We studied solids, liquids, and non-Newtonian fluids. We…
So as we get closer to the end of the trip, I want to take a minute to reflect on some of the things that we have seen and done. It’s not every day that I get to walk the worn smooth…
Here is a speeded up ride up to Mesada. http://youtu.be/UpdPnbyRJKs
Singers sing about it, poets rhapsodize, artists and sculptors try to capture it. People from all over the world long for it, think of it, remember it at their most supreme moments. It is majesty, it is beauty. It is…