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Jessica in Jerusalem: March 2007
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Friday, March 30, 2007. Another whirlwind week, but now I’m on vacation…for two weeks! There are most definitely perks to a Jewish school! A fun fact I learned this week, in my ongoing amusement with the Hebrew language: the word for “tie.”. Played their soccer game to an exciting 0-0 tie.). The word for that outcome is “teekav.”. I know that doesn’t seem that amusing. But you might remember that I have previously laughed at this country for pronouncing their abbreviations. It turns out that teekav.
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Jessica in Jerusalem: Shopping, Cleaning, Packing.
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Friday, May 11, 2007. Shopping, Cleaning, Packing. As we’ve been joking here, I’ve earned my R! Yes, my R. As in, R-A-B-B-I. It’s a five-year program.). Exam week was it’s usual self: lots of papers to finish, exams to study for, stress to deal with. And I’d like to think I did a good job! In a move that had Debbie trying to excommunicate me from the family, I got all my papers done the week before exams, so that I could study (or not study, as desired). I’m not sure it’s possible. I type in Hebrew witho...
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Jessica in Jerusalem: November 2006
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006. A midweek posting so I’m all caught up before I disappear for a few days…we’re going to. On Sunday, my Hebrew class and another class went to visit the Israeli Supreme Court, beit hamishpat ha-elyon. It was a much better trip than I expected! It was definitely a huge plus that our tour guide was incredibly patient with us, so if we didn’t understand something the first time, he explained it again using different words. The building itself is beautiful. We were there for about ...
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Jessica in Jerusalem: High Holidays in April
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Friday, April 27, 2007. High Holidays in April. I'm going the slightly lazy route this week. The following is what I just submitted to my synagogue newsletter about the recent holidays. An email went out last week to the entire HUC first year class with a subject line that read “the High Holidays of Israel.”. In the email was information about three upcoming holidays, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day), and Yom HaAtzmaut (Independence Day). It’s a Jewish country! Touris...
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Jessica in Jerusalem: December 2006
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Friday, December 29, 2006. Another guest blog, with my (Jessica's) comments in blue. Michael wrote first, in black. This week the time finally came to play my role as a proper tourist in Israel, which can generally mean only one thing: museum time! Since Jessica had only been to the Israel Museum to see one or two exhibits, I did not feel too guilty about bringing her back there to do some more exploring. Temple without seeing the role it played in that era, both religiously and geographically. The Secon...
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Jessica in Jerusalem: Back in the USSR...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007. Back in the USSR. As promised, a description of my trip follows. It was such an amazing and busy week that it's hard to condense it into a post. Want more details? Just ask. Pictures coming soon. A quick intro to the important people on my trip:. Josh and Hayley: my HUC travel partners, and awesome trip buddies. In the middle of the night, so none of us started on much sleep. All week we put up with each other, calmed each other down, and cheered each other up. We led the first...
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Jessica in Jerusalem: September 2006
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Monday, September 25, 2006. Participation. It was frustrating, to say the least. The cantor has a fabulous voice, and the choir was a beautiful addition. I just wish they could have found a better balance between vocal performance and congregational involvement. There was no sermon, but two different people spoke about various Torah portions. In Hebrew. When I was trying hard to pay attention (which was hard, since I was really tired and there were so many people to watch! I most definitely was missing t...
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Jessica in Jerusalem: Pictures!
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007. I narrowed down the pictures from the trip as best I could. They are here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). High Holidays in April. Back in the USSR. Haaretz: Israeli News in English. View my complete profile.
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Jessica in Jerusalem: May 2007
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Monday, May 14, 2007. And So it Goes. Please don't ask what they were. My mother would be embarrassed by things I hadn't eaten until this year.) I went to HUC to drop off some final things, and again was struck by how amazing this campus is, especially in the spring. This city is beautiful. It's not perfect, and it's not home, but it has been a most interesting, educational, enlightening, and mostly comfortable home for the last year, and although I am incredibly excited to return home tomorrow (! I̵...
