Getting to Know You

This morning we divided up into 59 groups and spread out in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to get to know one of the Israeli Reform Jewish professionals and individual Israeli family stories. Everyone I've spoken to loved their varied and creative adventures - and the tremendous weather added to it.
I met with Rabbi Nir Barkin of Congregation Yozma in the fast growing city of Modi'in. He shared the story of his great grandparents who made Aliyah in the 1870s as part of Hovevi Tzion.
We visited the shoe shop his grandather once owned by the Church of the Holy Sepluchure in the Christian Quarter of the Old City. Then we went to the Austrian Hostel where his great grandfather had a siesta every day. The view from the roof was tremendous. But sharing his family's story and how it developed over each generation was especially moving. A great start to what is becoming a great day.


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