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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Holy Sites and beginning Ulpan
We went to three holy sites in two days: the Western Wall, the Temple Mount and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Each one had its own sense of grandeur and beauty, but they also had many tourists (like me) looking at everything and taking pictures. And annoying people who thought that it might be [...]
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Yad Vashem
I only have vague memories of Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem) from my first trip to Israel in the early 1990′s. The monuments were quite impactful. They focused on remembering using symbolic architecture as an artistic tool. These strategies contrast with the Washington DC museum greatly. In Washington DC there is a [...]
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The internet and the wall
We have internet!!!! Whoohoo!!! It is amazing how much I take that connection for granted. Email has become my regular mail. Only junk mail, the occasional news letter, wedding invitations and thank you cards come in the mail these days. In Israel, I will probably only receive bills via snail mail. It’s all part of [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
My first thoughts about Israel
As we left the plane, I finally felt that this was real…. we really are leaving to live in Israel for a year. My first feelings, while clouded by exhaustion and jet lag, were filled with a bit of apprehension and an odd juxtaposition of coming and leaving home at the same time. [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
No time for excitement
It doesn’t seem possible that we are leaving to live in another country. It feels like we are on vacation and will be heading back to Cleveland soon. and the excitement that everyone asks about? It hasn’t seemed to catch up with us… rather, its somewhere in Israel waiting for us to find in a [...]
