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We started our day at Yad Vashem. Yad Vashem is the Holocaust Memorial operated in Jerusalem. Their goal is to give recognition and identification to 5 million of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. They have currently identified about 4 million of the victims and feel they can get to 5 million. Each […]

We went to the Western Wall today and I gave Ron the camera to document my placement of a note in honor of my mom and dad. He dutifully took my picture and handed the camera back to me and it was only my astute distrust of his photography skills that led me to check […]

I finally got Adina to myself yesterday and gathered the following information: driving age is 18, an undergrad degree is a 3 year endeavor, not 4. Tuition for a 3 year program at a public school is $4000 TOTAL. I had just moved on to speed limits, traffic cameras and DUI laws when, unbelievably and […]

No one is ever going to design a tour just for me. Adina took us all over northern Israel today – to ancient cities and beautiful vistas – and, as we drove, we passed a Kimberly Clark factory I wanted to know more about (diapers? Toilet paper?) and an abandoned Volkswagen dealership (economy issue? Distaste […]