Dear Friends,
The first time I travelled to
Israel was in 1975. I spent 6 months as an exchange student when I was in 11th
grade – learning Hebrew, attending the Leo Baeck High School in Haifa, and
travelling the length and breadth of the land.
I spent my first year of
Rabbinical School in Jerusalem. Since I was relatively fluent in Hebrew by
then, and since all students in my class had to