Shalom haverim, Today is my second to last day with the Bedouin, and I am sorry to leave them behind. I return to Haifa for the start of a traveling history class on Sunday. Although my afternoons are most always spent in Assaryia (ah-za-ree-yah) outside of East Jerusalem , every morning is a different experience. [...]
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Re: My Week in the West Bank
Dear friends, I previously did not make my email list as complete as it should have been, so my apologies to those friends and family that did not get my last two or three emails. Compared to the length of this one, they weren’t much! My apologies also for the dramatic nature of my last [...]
Aug 25th, 2004 Israel Trip 2004 0 Comments
Re: From the Holy City
Dear friends and family: I am writing you from an internet cafe by the New Gate of the Old City –the ground I inhabit at the moment is charged with the blood, tears, sweat and joy of three thousand plus years of human worship of all types. It is hard to imagine the multitudes of [...]
Aug 14th, 2004 Israel Trip 2004 0 Comments
Re: Life in Haifa
Shalom haverim! (Hello, friends) So this is my first shout-out from Israel , at least to a partial group of people. Forgive me if I forgot anyone important, this is a quick and dirty cut-and-paste from an email to my folks: My daily schedule so far resembles the following: I wake up at 7:30 am [...]
Aug 5th, 2004 Israel Trip 2004 0 Comments
Re: Right to Left English Sucks
,This is from the computer lab in my dorm building, and (unsurprisingly) the font is set on Hebrew so everything is coming out left to right and it’s driving me crazy. I got into Haifa just fine, got to the university in time for one of the evening programs and to meet some of the [...]
Aug 1st, 2004 Israel Trip 2004 0 Comments