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Overcoming Glitches As a New Immigrant to Israel

January 16, 2011 | No Comments »

Daniel Goldschmidt continues to blog about his experiences as a new immigrant to Israel. Today the focus is on unexpected challenges as a new citizen.

1947 to 2010 Personal Experience of Journalist Eliezer Whartman in Israel

November 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »

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Eliezer Whartman Hagana 1948

” My first glimpse of Jerusalem was in October 1947. I was a young student from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York coming to what I thought would be a one year period of study at the Hebrew University. Since then I have never looked back. After Jerusalem there is no where else to go.” Then I joined the Hagana.

Journalist Adam Levick Makes Aliyah to Israel and Shares his Insights

October 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Haifa, Refugees from Eastern Europe, Summer of 1948

by Adam Levick The ethnic, national, and racial diversity in the Ulpan (intensive Hebrew) class I attended shortly after becoming a citizen of Israel, is a legacy of the cultural diversity and far-flung nature of the Jewish Diaspora: it is said that Jews have come to modern Israel from 103 countries and speak more than 70 different languages. In my class alone, there are Jews from Ethiopia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, the UK, Italy, Germany, and the U.S.

Interview Reena Keren – Dancer – Therapist – Eating Disorders – Addictions

October 04, 2010 | 4 Comments »

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Reena Keren was a child with an eating disorder. In the early 1960’s, no one recognized that this was her cry for help. Only many years later did Keren herself begin to accept this reality. She gradually understood that she had lost control of her food and of her life. She began to accept the responsibility for her addiction and subsequent rehabilitation. Now, twenty six years into her recovery, using techniques that she herself developed, Keren has become an expert in treating others who suffer from eating disorders and addictions.