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 […]
Tag Archives: kibbutz
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 […]
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 […]
