The Kibbutz: Dinner With My Host Family
I had dinner with my host family for the first time tonight. For context, most Ulpanists, if they so desire, can ask to be “adopted” by a host family, a […]
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The Kibbutz: Some Politics and History
I met a pair of couples this weekend and was able to learn a bit more about the inner workings of the kibbutz, and some history. One of the couples […]
Kibbutz Observations: Two Rituals
I was lucky enough to witness two rituals in the 36 hour period between Friday morning and Saturday afternoon that helped deepen my understanding of the kibbutz: a party, and […]
First Observations of the Kibbutz
I arrived at the kibbutz Ma’agen Michael yesterday. Thus far my time has been spent meeting the other Ulpanists (students in the five-month hebrew language program), getting oriented and acclimated […]
I wrote a column!
As some of you may know, I spent the first few seasons of college writing for Berkeley’s marvelous independent student newspaper, The Daily Californian. I was an arts writer, and […]
Idle Thoughts While Studying Political Economy
Reading Dani Rodrik‘s 1997 essay “Has Globalization Gone too Far”, he asserts (during a discussion of common critiques of globalization) that “A common view is that the complaints of nongovernmental organizations […]
F1rst p0st
For the longest time, I would scoff at people with blogs. “What a desperate way to try to keep pace with the waves of change, and to appear abreast of […]
