What a whirlwind of the past month! Here are a few highlights:
* Evan successfully finished his first year of rabbincal school! He rocked and did really well.
* We partied like rock stars, until 3 am, dancing in the streets for Yom Haatzmaut - celebrating Israel's 60th year of independence. It's been a really intense month with all the Jewish holidays but so amazing to be here and feel the spirit in the air.
* Evan was awarded an Excellence in Community Service award last week at the final HUC Shabbat. It was great recognition for my rockstar husband who had not one, but 2 community service gigs this year
* We found out from HUC that they transferred us to the NYC campus! SO it's been a whirlwind trying to arrange for subletters, jobs, etc etc. Thankfully things are coming together very nicely!
* We had a great visit with Grandma Shirley who was here for 2 weeks in May
* Jenny saw her cousin Elaine who was on Birthright and wonderful to meet up in Tel Aviv
*Evan got his High Holiday pulpit and will be traveling to Arkansas to lead Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur services- he's really excited about it
*Jenny is in the final stages of job negotiations and hopefully will be starting a great new job in August in NY
* And we're taking a vacation - one last hurrah before returning to NY in late June..We are going to Europe for the next 3 weeks where we will visit friends in London and Scotland, then fly to Paris and train to Brussels and Brugge and Amsterdam and then end our trip with 6 days in Tuscany staying in our friend's empty apartment. We really lucked out with so many free lodgings :)
More from the road ..we'll send some updates from Europe.
We return from Europe to one last week in Israel before coming home...
The past week has been filled with packing, goodbyes and Jenny finishing her job...It's a very bittersweet feeling, leaving such an amazing place- but also being excited by Europe and all the exciting things that lay ahead of us...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Family Pictures b'aretz (in the land)
Some pictures from our family members who have recently visited these past few months: Jeremy and Jenny near the Lebanese border; Linda and Evan on the Tel Aviv beach; Jenny, Carol and Ken in Petra, Jordan; Grandma Shirley (or Shulamit as she prefers to be called by her Hebrew name here in the Holy Land!) and Jenny overlooking Jerusalem.
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