David's Israel Adventure

This blog will chronicle the adventures of me, David Weinfeld, as an Otzma fellow in Israel, from August 21st, 2005 to May 29th, 2006. I hope this is as exciting for you as it is for me (though that would be a tad bizarre, now wouldn't it?).

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Jerusalem summary, including Schwarma 22*

I spent the weekend in Jerusalem, which I will summarize briefly:

I first visited the Central Zionist Archives, with Josh. We met up there with Professor Haiim Avni, who taught my father at Hebrew U 34 years ago. It was very nice. The building was beautiful, the only building built specifically as an archive in Israel. We saw really cool old socialist Zionist posters, and most impressively, the Herzl room, an unmarked room that had original letters and other documents that Herzl wrote. Very exciting.

In Jerusalem, I stayed with my friends Nathan and Ari, Harvard alum who live right by Emek Rephaim, a central street in J-town. When you step out of their apartment, you hear only English; it's all frummy Americans around there. This is a bit annoying. I had some schwarma there, my 22nd*, it was Hodu, but not bad. Irin came over on Friday night to stay with us, we had a little Harvard reunion, it being Harvard-Yale weekend and all. That was fun.

Other than that, we had fun, went out a bit, chilled and got ready for track 2 in Haifa.

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