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“The Slide”
“It was a slide. The biggest slide I had ever known. It towered above the ground, above my three-, five-, six-year-old self like a mountain. The slide was wide — my sisters and I could all slide at once. There… Continue reading
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A Veteran Israeli Soldier’s Take on Syria, as Told Over Cigarettes
On Thursday night my family had dinner at my Israeli cousin’s house. She’s a young mother, with three adorable children (aged 2 months to about 5 years) and a fascinating, iconoclastic husband. This man is full of opinions, and when he, my… Continue reading
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Final Travel Article is up on HuffPo
I wrote a big sort of “lessons-learned” blog post for the Huffington Post’s travel blog (where I’ve been an erratic fixture this past half-year) summarizing some of the lessons I’ve learned over this past year of traveling. I’m quite pleased… Continue reading
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The Religious Mindset
Last week, I finished a six-week course of study at Mayanot, an orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Jerusalem. It was the deepest I had ever delved into the world of religion, having grown up and been educated in a pretty secular… Continue reading
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The Kibbutz: A Profile of the Ulpanists
I want to talk a little bit about the kinds of people who come to the Ulpan at kibbutz Ma’agan Michael. During my eleven weeks on the kibbutz, I’ve gotten to know people fairly well and have been able to… Continue reading
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The Kibbutz: An Aside
En route to a meteor shower, one of my classmates (who also knows the two couples mentioned in the previous post) tells me that the two women of the pair have been friends since middle school and that, of all… Continue reading
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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 to the program, and exploring the kibbutz’s physical space. It’s… Continue reading
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