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Jerusalem Fellows Field Trip  
   

Jerusalem Fellows Field Trip

We explored layers of history in the Jerusalem hills from 2000 year old mikvehs to Arab villages displaced in the War of Independence to today. What stories do we tell? How?
Out In The Streets (and Hills)

October 1st 2009
Every so often, I have to stop and just marvel that here I am, in Jerusalem! Things happen here that I just can't imagine happening in other places. This week presented several of those moments. Living Yom Kippur was Sunday night and Monday. Adina Wollner, a young San Diego woman who just made aliyah, came to stay with me. It is against the law to drive on Yom Kippur ... read more
Middle East » Israel » Jerusalem District » Jerusalem

Israeli Flag Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without... ... read more
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