Israel: Off-Roading, Tree Planting, and an Archaeological Dig
By Amy Krakovitz
Good morning, another hot and dry morning in the Galilee area. Today we meet with Ari, Moti, and Ariel, who run a jeep tour company. We are about to do some off-roading in some four-wheel drive jeeps. Two of the jeeps are open-air, but one is the “luxury” vehicle, with air-conditioning. Those of us in the open cars will get hot and dusty (and muddy at one point), but this is what makes the trip authentic.
While the air is arid, the land we drive over is fed by a multitude of underground springs, making the area fertile. We pass groves of bananas, pomegranates, oranges, lichi, avocadoes, and more. There is livestock as well. It’s a thriving agricultural area.
There are pockets of “oases” where the underground springs bubble up and local Israelis visit these natural ponds in the summer the way people who liv..
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Hebrew High-Lights
8th Grade Retreat Nets Spoken Word Poetry That Expresses Jewish Identity
This year’s 8th grade retreat focused on creating Spoken Word Poetry to express our Jewish identity. The class was aided by The Black Ink Monks of Johnson C. Smith University, along with their advisors and professors, Kirsten Hemmy and Cindy Kistenberg.
After watching the documentary, “Louder Than a Bomb,” about Chicago’s annual Slam Poetry contest for local high schools, the students set about creating their own poems.
Here are a few of the first lines of severa..
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By Jason Edelstein
Jerusalem (JTA) — Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed some concerns about Israeli democracy in a closed-door session at the Saban Forum, reportedly criticizing proposed Knesset legislation aimed at curbing foreign funding of Israeli NGOs and gender-segregated bus lines serving haredi Orthodox areas.
A couple of weeks later, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman penned an Op-Ed saying that he is “deeply worried about where Israel is going today.”
Maybe Clinton and Friedman first should take a hard look at the state of democracy at home.
In the spirit of Friedman’s letter-style columns, I offer my own only half-facetious letter on American democracy:
Dear Tom Friedman and Hillary Clinton,
As I write from Jerusalem and look at what is happening in America, I am very worried. Let me be clear: As someone who used to live in America, I ..
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