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OMG, today I sat through a seven-hour meeting for the project I am working on. Basically it was an overview of what the team needs to complete over the next month. There’s a lot of work.
Here’s what’s happening. There are two museums, Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC and the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA […]

In today’s Hebrew the word shalom (”peace”) is used as both a greeting and a parting word. It’s “hello” and “goodbye”. When I started writing this blog, I named it Shalom Israel because I was saying hello to my new country. I could have very well also called it Shalom North Carolina.
Since arriving here, I […]

Tuesday morning Yaacov and I went to the “Misrad HaPanim” (aka the Office of the Interior Ministry). My visa expires on Sept 1 and, obviously, I need to get it renewed. I don’t want to get into all of the details of how I am able to stay in Israel even though I am not […]

I’m obsessed - please forgive the bad “paint” job.

A couple of posts back I put up a picture of myself at the Dead Sea. In the picture you could see a big scar on my leg. Sam asked about it - so, here’s the story.
A couple of days into the “Spring” semester (it was January!) of my Junior year at UNC, I was […]