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Middle East » Israel » Haifa District » Haifa September 21st 2005

Hello all! After all of our orientations, tours, and introductions, the semester officially began Sunday. I have registered for Hebrew, Modern Standard Arabic, Rabbinic Literature, and Contemporary Israeli History and Society. I have the option to change my schedule around during the next week, but after going through almost a week of classes, I find myself very satisfied and excited. My Hebrew class is intense and very challenging. It meets eight hours per week, but the teacher seems great. Rabbinic Literature is dynamic and has an extra two hour lab section in addition to the regular course in which we work through texts in pairs. Contemporary Israeli History and Society starts off as being not so contemporary at all and we went over two thousand years back into history during the first class. The teacher is ... read more
Dorm Room
Dorm Room
Night

Middle East » Israel » Haifa District » Haifa September 10th 2005

I can't believe that it was one week ago that I left my humble abode in Chicago--this week has gone by so quickly! The weekend in Israel is Friday afternoon through Saturday, but since classes are yet to have started, our weekend this week really began on Thursday. Friday morning we woke up at 3:30 am to hike into the Carmel National Forests right behind campus up to a great look out spot for watching the sunrise. We were guided by an old man who has always lived on and around the mountain and feels as though he is a part of it. He was fascinating. We walked back to the dorms at about 7am at which point I went back to sleep for another four hours. Friday evening we went to a Shabbat service and ... read more
The Mediterranean

Middle East » Israel » Haifa District » Haifa September 7th 2005

Today has been yet another day jam-packed with new people and places. We visited the Bahai Gardens, which were absolutely amazing and a mosque of the Ahmediyyan sect of Islam. We ate lunch at a nice restaurant and continued from there to the Leo Baeck Education Center where I will be spending a lot of time this year. Leo Baeck houses a pre-school, kindergarten, junior high, and high school along with a synagogue, gym, swimming pool, library, meeting rooms, offices, gardens, and all sorts of other imporant parts of the community. Tonight is unscheduled and many of us are planning on leaving campus to explore the city just a bit. It should be a fun!... read more
Haifa from above
Haifa from above
Gate of the Bahai Gardens

Middle East » Israel » Haifa District » Haifa September 6th 2005

I left Chicago very early on Sunday morning and flew out of O'Hare for Newark. There I met nearly everyone from my particular group of overseas students and we then traveled together on a long flight to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. By the end of our flight, I felt like I knew the other 13 people on Carmel surprisingly well. Everyone seems very nice. My roommates from the overseas department are three girls named Jessica, Dina, and Ilana. We will also have two Israelis living in our suite, but they are yet to have arrived. From the airport we took a chartered bus to the University of Haifa, where our year really began. Our first day was filled with unpacking, settling in, and welcomes from a lot of different people we will be working ... read more
First dinner
Bonfire

Middle East » Israel » Haifa District » Haifa June 1st 2003

Today was our only day in Haifa. We began with an overview of the city from one of the promenades on the hill, and then walked over for an overlook of the Bahai Gardens. We then met with Ophir Yarden, an educator who does a lot of work with Israeli Arabs. After a discussion of the situation of Arabs in Israel, we went to visit the Sisters of Nazareth School, an Arab Christian school in Haifa. Haifa has a more mixed population than any other city in Israel, and generally has had good relations between Jews and Arabs. The school we visited was very different than what one would expect from seeing the news in the US. The neighborhood is upper middle class, and the school is beatiful and well equipped in terms of lab and ... read more

Middle East » Israel » Haifa District » Haifa November 14th 1993

Nov 14, 1993 *City official name :Haifa *Founded date : *Location :Haifa District *Elavation :? ft (? m) *Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). *Facts :Haifa (Hebrew חֵיפָה Ḥefa; Arabic حَيْفَا Ḥayfā (help·info)) is the main city of northern Israel and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of about 267,800 (as of May 2006). It and areas and towns around it are deemed to be in the Haifa District. It is a seaport, located below and on Mount Carmel, and lies on the Mediterranean coast. The city's sole official romanization Haifa and the common English pronunciation /ˈhaɪ.fə/ are based on the Arabic name Ḥayfā, whilst the unused Standard Hebrew name is Ḥefa, and the local Hebrew pronunciation is typically /xei.ˈfa/. The... read more
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Haifa
Haifa




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