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The program was designed to give Americans the feeling they are living, not just on vacation, in Israel. "Most of what we want to get across to the kids can be done in half a school year," Breakstone says. "Five months is enough time to show the good and the bad." Although operated by the Conservative movement, Pro- ject Discovery includes students from a variety of backgrounds. Common to all is that none attends a Jewish day school. The religious approach is flexible, Breakstone says. Males are not required to wear kippot and saying Birkat Hamazon, grace after meals, is not mandatory. Two weekly half-hour courses deal with aspects of Judaism like the weekly Torah portion and prayer. "The only other religious aspect that can be considered coercive is on the Shabbatot we spend together. We do not do anything as a group that is chilul Shabbat (a desecra- tion of Shabbat)," Breakstone says. "We're trying to satisfy a whole spectrum of people and to teach tolerance and pluralism," he adds. It hasn't been easy. One Shabbat early in the pro- gram, a dispute broke out over whether services should be conducted along Conser- vative or Reform lines. For some, the program is too religious, for others it is not traditional enough. Once a week, Tanach in hand, students go see the sites the Bible talks about. For Hebrew class, the group took a field trip to an area supermarket to become familiar with Hebrew names for food. The following Sun- day, the students' Hebrew teacher made them breakfast at her home. "We had to order in Hebrew," Jodi Weiss of Far- mington Hills recalls. The 19 teenagers live in a dormatory in the Israel Goldstein Youth Village, a shady campus in Jerusalem's San Simone neighborhood. Books and papers are piled on desks and shelves in their rooms, sleeping bags lay on the beds in colorful heaps and posters and photographs line the walls. "We've made it home," says Denise Siporin of Farmington Hills. The group shares the cam- pus grounds with disadvan- taged Israelis participating in a Youth Aliyah program. The contact between the Israelis and Americans has led to con- flict. "(The Israelis) like American music, American clothes, but they don't like Americans," Jamie Pollack says. David Breakstone concedes tensions exist, but says they are on the wane. He doesn't believe it was a mistake to place the Americans in the same environment as Israelis. Through these contacts, plus encounters with other Israeli youth, the Project Discovery participants at least will be able to say they met their Israeli peers, if not befriend- ed them, Breakstone says. "These are mainstream Israelis, not problem kids. They're (at the youth village) because their potential was seen as greater than their It hasn't been easy. One Shabbat early in the program, a dispute broke out over whether services should be conducted along Conservative or Reform lines. local environment was capable of dealing with," he says. If the dubious welcome from their Israeli peers was a sur- prise, the Project Discovery participants had other unex- pected relevations early on. "I didn't realize how secular Israel is," David Dressler says. "I imagined kippot and black dress everywhere. I ex- pected to be surrounded by religion." The informality at synagogues is surprising," Jamie Pollack adds. "You see people wearing open shirts and sweat pants." "We have a knowledge of what's really going on with the intifada," Jodi Weiss says. "Before the summer, I thought the violence was all throughout Israel." The students are not of one mind when it comes to what part Israel will play in their future. Some, like Erika Gott- fried, would like to make aliyah some day. "I might come just to be in the army," she says. "I con- sider myself a Zionist because I believe in the country." Project Discovery par- ticipants include: Kathy Berger, Anna Bukhin, Elana Carmel, Daniel Chait, Arielle Collin, Danny Douville, David Dressler, Scott Emmer,