Coming from a South African background used to the comforts of home, at the age of 28, I was not particularly enamored of a dormitory-style of living. Fortunately, Ohr Somayach […]
In 1976 Barbara Ellen Rosen was working in Washington DC for the United States Government. Dedicated to her job as an external auditor of insurance companies, the 25-year-old from Providence, […]
My future wife and I arrived from India at Athens Airport in the middle of the night, after 5 months of backpacking in Asia. Since the first bus did not […]
Growing up in Miami, FL, with a strong Jewish identity, well meaning parents and a paltry Jewish education left me at a loss at how the Jewish people could survive […]
A group of students, from the ulpan at Kibbutz Beit Hashita, was walking through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City looking for a place they could buy a siddur […]
While still in school, Yocheved spent a semester in Israel on the Dawson Semester Program. She spent eight months on Kibbutz Gatton. With a full course load and working the […]
It was February of 1977. I was at the end of my second long stay in Israel. I had been there for a year, 6 months on a kibbutz ulpan and […]
Here are a few glimpses into my relationship wtih Reb Meir: #1 – He knew just by looking at me. Sure, I had been at Aish for a few months […]
The US Centennial summer of 1976 turned out to be pivotal. The Sunday New York Times Magazine ran a story on Israel post-1973 with a full page cover photo of […]
Reb Meir worked at the Western Wall. That was his office. And I, hired by the American Peylim organization, was to be “the woman at the Wall”. First, I just […]