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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
he last hour of El Al's
flight 005 out of Ken-
nedy Airport is cen-
turies long. Every nerve ending
is on alert, burning with fiery
impatience.
On land, we move like wobbly
robots, turning over the
obligatory forms with trembl-
ing hands.
And then, at last, we are at
the airport gate in Tel Aviv,
scanning the faces for only one.
It is a face we have memorized
over time zones and across con-
tinents for seven long months.
Her father spots her first. We
rush to Amy, laughing, weep-
ing, shouting, forgetting all
decorum and dignity as we
envelop our daughter in one
lopsided, lunatic embrace.
Only if you have been sep-
arated from a loved one for too
long will you recognize the
sense of relief, release and re-
joicing that we experienced on
a recent sun-splashed afternoon
in Israel. As reunions go, this
one was nothing short of
spectacular.
Our 22-year-old daughter is a
participant in Otzma, a pilot
program that has taken her
from the bosom of family to a
ten-month odyssey in Israel as
one of 56 members of a Jewish
service corps. The goals are lof-
ty — to inspire and educate the
future leadership of Diaspora
Jews and to immerse them in
the real Israel.
But for parents, the realities
have been deeply personal.
Our initial reaction to Amy's
decision was, shall we
generously say, "anxious . . ." If
truth be told, we'd pleaded with
our daughter to reconsider, to
drop the notion, and to spend
her first post-college year in
more traditional pursuits.
And because Amy is a deter-
mined sort, she listened to our
fears and treaties, bulldozed
her way beyond them, and
showed us her remarkable stay-
ing power.
And it came to pass that on
a summer day, heavy with heat,
humidity and anxiety, we cried
the tears we'd promised we
wouldn't as Amy walked past
the "Passengers Only" gate in
the El Al terminal, and
disappeared. .
In Hebrew, Otzma means
"strength." It was a perfect
metaphor for our middle
daughter on that day when she
flew off to Israel on the wings
Sally Friedman is a writer liv-
ing in Moorestown, N.J. For in-
formation On the Otzma pro-
gram, contact the Associated
Jewish Charities.
of hope, born the robust op-
timism of the young.
Amy was ready for the adven-
ture of her life, while we brac-
ed for the empty chair at the
Thanksgiving Day table.
Through the fall and winter
of Amy's Otzma year, the let-
ters and phone calls were en-
couraging. Across continents,
and on those wafer-thin pages
of airmail stationery, we shared
the adventure: Stage One, the
launching pad, 14 weeks on a
kibbutz ulpan; Stage Two, four
weeks in a youth village for
troubled kids; Stage Three, six
weeks on a vegetable-growing
moshav near Eilat.
But air mail letters dashed off
in white heat, and phone calls
transmitted across oceans do
not a deep connection make.
We found ourselves missing
our beloved middle daughter
more than we'd planned to, and
by the first frost, we knew that
Otzma means
"strenth." It was
the perfect
metaphor for our
middle daughter.
we'd be going to Israel for a
firsthand, eyewitness ex-
perience. We also knew that
this would be no ordinary
tourist trek to the land of our
fathers.
What we needed, more ur-
gently than we'd expected to,
was to see the land of our
daughter. We decided to
humbly follow as Amy led us
through Israel with her Otzma
experience as our road map.
Amy looked marvelous on the
day she greeted us at Ben
Gurion Airport. If Otzma had
done nothing else, it had
energized our daughter. The
young lady known to sleep till
noon in her "salad days" had us
up-and-at-'em at the crack of
dawn as we began retracing her
Israeli footsteps.
Our first destination: Kibbutz
Hanita.
Nestled in the breathtaking
hills of the North, Hanita
sprawls, lush, green, faintly
reminiscent of the summer
camps of Amy's childhood.
We visit the tiny dormitory
quarters where Amy lived as
she learned not just Hebrew —
not just the ways of Kibbutz life
— but also how to cope with in-
tense togetherness, with long
days in the blisteringly-hot
banana fields, and with the
cosmic leap into a new culture.
The first component of Otzma
— kibbutz ulpan — was daun-
ting and difficult, sometimes
perilously so.
Amy walked us through the
trails and gardens of Hanita,