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When you go on a federation mission to Israel – or anywhere, for that matter – you are always in for a set of experiences you will never forget. The only problem is that you are moving so fast, it’s hard to keep them all straight sometimes! There is one experience I had on the Heart 2 …
After I return from a trip to Israel, I find that when I download the pictures from my camera, there are pictures that I think I took but are instead consigned to my memory alone. (Sometimes this is a good thing. When we visited an IDF training base and rode in an armored personnel carrier, …
This week I'm writing from Israel! I'm traveling with 18 other women from MetroWest as part of the Heart 2 Heart Mission, a national women's mission sponsored by the National Women's Philanthropy of the Jewish Federations of North America. The weather has been cool and rainy, but our enthusi…
The pictures can’t possibly tell the whole story, and yet they are heartbreaking and horrifying. The stories, in print and on videotape, tell of unbearable loss and unfathomable goodness. We will be living with the tragedy of the Haitian earthquake for a very long time – and, I hope, wit…
When I was in college, I found that at some point in any given semester my courses in one way or another would all be addressing the same ideas or topics. I’ve had a similar experience over the last few days in grown-up life. The topic I’m finding in the atmosphere in my world is spiritu…
