Archive for December, 2004

Re: The Last Dispatch from Jerusalem


Dearest friends,
Today is my last day in Jerusalem, in Israel, and outside the US for as
long as it takes me to save up money to come back. I’ve had a lot of
adventures here, too many to recount online. I noticed that my
dispatches began to get longer and longer, so I must have been quite
busy.
I’m not [...]


Re: Opening Eyes Through Shock and Awe


Shalom, hev’rei,
The adventure never ends. Alas, I know it must within two weeks. This
past weekend, twelve friends from the University of Haifa came down for
a tour of East Jerusalem and Ramallah. We opened many eyes in just two
days.
They came in after classes on Thursday and housed with my dear friend
Ibrahim Abu-El-Hawa. After dinner, Rabbi Jeremy [...]


Re: Busy Days in East Jerusalem


Shalom haverim,
It’s only Thursday and this week has been so busy I missed the deadline
for submitting my research project. No big loss, mind you. The research
project was going nowhere, whereas I am learning everything I want to
learn elsewhere. Problem is, I’m learning more than I wanted to.
It began the day before yesterday with a round [...]