New Blog Posts from Israel: Berlin, Yossi Klein Halevi
07/16/2014 06:02:15 PM
Jul16
With BK contingent at Noar Hadash, Camp JRF Israel trip.
Noah Ramos, Moses Rifkin, Lia Schattner
Noah Ramos, Moses Rifkin, Lia Schattner
My trip to Israel began with a stop in Germany. I know I am not the first to travel to Israel via Germany but of course I think about the Holocaust. I think about the minor miracle of a Jew choosing to fly through Germany to Israel for convenience. I am embarrassed by an ongoing mental tendency to disparage anything German. I know that this is not an uncommon Jewish sentiment. Watching the World Cup in the Berlin airport I quietly root...
I have had a full day in Jerusalem. I have visited Mevakshei Derech the Reconstructionist synagogue of Jerusalem founded in 1962. I studied at the Hartman Institute with Yossi Klein Halivni. Studied with MK Ruth Calderon a Bnai Keshet friend in the Knesset Bet Midrash. I heard from Rabbi Andy Sacks about work he is doing here with the Mesorti - Israeli Conservative movement and Rabbi Joel Osseran of the World Union of Progressive Judaism of...
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