September 28, 2020
By: Admin
By Sammy Two weeks in a tiny room, shared with three other people. Feel free to leave the room, as long as you are okay with losing $30,000 and being kicked off the program, deported, and banned from coming back...
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September 24, 2020
By: Admin
By Sami On this quiet Shabbat evening I sit alone on the couch while my new roommates nap. There’s not much else to do at the moment. Jerusalem has restrictions in place requiring American students to quarantine for two weeks,...
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September 21, 2020
By: Admin
By Abby [caption id="attachment_1526" align="alignright" width="229"] First step of freedom! During quarantine, we were allowed on our small porch, but not on the stairs.[/caption] A lot of people say the secret to happiness is living with low expectations, but I...
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September 20, 2020
By: Admin
By Maia I’ve probably spent more time in my apartment in the last two weeks than I will spend in the next few months. Two weeks ago, I boarded a flight to Israel with a folder full of immigration documents...
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August 24, 2020
By: Admin
By Maia Ever since Friday March 13th, the last day I stepped into a classroom, traveling to Israel to begin my gap year has seemed like my ticket out of the pandemic. I planned my gap year before the pandemic...
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By: Admin
By Sammy Our lives move so fast, we don’t even get to enjoy a transition. Without this pandemic, I would have gone straight from graduating to being an 8-week camp counselor to possible going straight to Duke. I would be...
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By: Admin
By Abby I love making lists, whether it’s a post-it note to-do list or a messily scrawled grocery list. There is simply nothing more satisfying than a document that clearly conveys information. Unfortunately, that is not the Israeli way; my...
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January 8, 2020
By: Leslie
By Amichai [caption id="attachment_881" align="alignright" width="225"] With my chevruta (learning partner), I am learning Talmud, specifically the tractate of Bava Kama, which is a book of Jewish law that discusses civil matters and deals with rules of damages.[/caption] When I...
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November 27, 2019
By: Leslie
It's been a month since I first arrived in Israel, and the experience so far has been unbelievable. For the first week, I stayed in the small desert town of Sde Boker, which is probably best described as a desert...
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