“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 — […]
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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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
