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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

    Final Travel Article is up on HuffPo

  • 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 kibbutz family who will take you under their wing, invite… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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 a memorial. Lila Lavan The first was a party, called… Continue reading

  • 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