Shaping our new lives Photo 9

Shaping our new lives

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August 13th 2011
Wednesday, August 10th, marked one week that we had been in our new home. In the afternoon we met with the Goldfarb family - “Anglo-Saxons” (native English speakers) with kids at Yehuda HaLevi School which the boys will be attending. The dad’s originally from New York and the mom grew up in the U.S, Sweden and Israel. I came away feeling a little more comfortable about placing our boys in ... read more

Middle East » Israel » Jerusalem District » Jerusalem

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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