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March 19, 2003
07:15
Dear all, it has been quite a while. Since we last spoke I returned
to the US for three weeks and now back in Jerusalem. Due to the
timely nature of this posting, with Mr. Bush and his strategery,
I would like to share that Rachel and I new it all along and planned
over a week ago a trip to Eilat, in the southern most tip of Israel.
We are looking to be on the beach as the stress in the bigger cities
builds.
Now that the reality check is done, more to fun stuff. Since my
return I have had some great get aways from Jerusalem. When I first
returned Rachel and I went up to a vegetarian Moshav (community/socialist
based village type thing) and enjoyed great restaurants and amazing
winter scenery, quite different from what most of us are used to
as winter. The Moshav is in the northern Galil and is called Amirim.
We are returning there in a few weeks both with Rachel’s parents
and with my father, very excited. The winter in the Galil is a sight,
the flowers are blooming and the vegetation is glowing green, especially
with all the welcomed rain we have seen this year in Israel…
A few weeks later Rachel and I joined many of my classmates and
the Israeli Rabbinic program for a Shabbat get-away in Ein Gedi,
a spring fed resort near the dead sea…stayed there with my
dad…beautiful…An amazing weekend of relaxation, not
strings attached just hanging out with good people…and a spa!!!
Which brings us to the snow, wow, what a sight. Almost 8 inches
in Jerusalem, not to mention two days off school WHOOPIE!!!! But
then the apt. had major problems, IT LEAKS, like a sieve. Water
in the walls, in the electricity, we had to vacate for a week. Worked
out pretty well though as a teacher of mine was leaving the country
and needed a dog sitter…I got an apartment all to my lonesome,
with some company – Rachel and when she was at the university
I had a beautiful golden retriever to play with, not the most educated
but fun, let’s just say he is like the kid in class whose
nose is always running and his shirt is half untucked, but a big
galoot, that’s for sure.
The snow was amazing, snowball fights all over the place..the old
city was truly amazing all covered in white, not to mention the
entire city was closed for two days…nothing was open unless
the restaurant/shop owner lived in the same building…an awesome
experience….
Then two Saturdays spent out of Jerusalem and getting to know the
area….something I did not do any of last semester –
thanks Rachel. We went to an Israeli-Arab twon just outside of Jerusalem,
known for the best Hummus in Israel – WOW!!, not quite as
good as my favorite place in Jerusalem, but the bakery afterwards
made it worth a trip every week if I had a car…the next Shabbat,
Saturday afternoon we went to an old agricultural area outside of
Jerusalem near the twon of Ein Cerem called Sattaf, I was still
dog sitting and we took the dog along with a coupld of friends and
another golden retriever and hiked from the terraced hillsides with
up to the twon of Ein Cerem, it was covered with beautiful apring
flowers and blossoming Almond Trees,
Last night was Purim, the Jewish celebration of the surviving our
almost certain demise in under the Persian king Achasverosh, it
is a holiday of celebration (eating and drinking), hearing the story
read and send gift baskets to friends and the needy…Rachel
and I were lucky enough to get tickets to ‘THE PURIM PARTY’,
every year the art school –Bezalel- has the biggest Purim
bash, this year the held it at the Israel Museum, three rooms with
crazy music and dancing…the costumes were next to none, remember
art students, it was a blast that lasted into the night…now
off to Eilat, enjoy the pics and all my love,
Love From Jerusalem,
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