fission
•
with thoughts of returntng to Israel.
down. Shopping was corn-
was
- _pleted, but amore important than that, the •
.a rneinorial to
was. finally
done.
•
•
PUT group
rn.Out4ling at Yitzhak Rabin'
bonding
of
When ialuries occurred while biking down
celebration at Israel's Independence
see Eilat, liall.
Israel's
the Burma Road, everyone cared aria tried
In hindsight, I
The ,youth. ty, as not only a tourist's par-
\ BY-DAN FREEMAN ,
ch of
a
to help. While a bun
southerninost c iarmingoasis in one of the
S eciat to the Jewish Saw
stepped
onto
my
bus
on
the
first
day,
were
1
adise but also an arming The new Eneri-
last: We
take one last step off of the El Al •
group stepped off it on thc knew that it
hottest
deserts
In
the
wor&aSailing-were
'
- -
all sad to go, and yet we-all
747. -I am home. - .
ences like snorkeling and par
reaof tho se
n
Ignoring the extiternent
-
was' time.
o
Only
a
part
o
the
overall
experience:
have returned. I
f
-own lizatio
•
now I
i-
-Once
out
of
the
city,
natures,
grand
S
around rne and my
temptedto
turn back towards the term
s
of
Detroit, I am
oces
rna'jesty was felt in
of
being
back and
in :take a-final, look at what I
n.al and begin the pr wms. I
Four Teen Mission travelers
turn
around
e
s
-places such as th
'getting through cu
Freeman, Jennifer
have left behind me. I think
not for
of the
-Ramon crater (the ,
am home. Soon I Will see ray
o man and
Dan
home
18
Caryn R
. my
Nathan
largest
crater
in
the
parents and friends w whom
actual plane that
the was.
home that-it took'rne
eeks I
Miriam Lieberman — have
orld)
.and
the,Rect
-
of
have missed for five
w
hours but
pr
ovided
stories
to
The
Jewish
,
Canyon, 'The shared
My dog will be waiting for
Niya_y- from.
it done.sto m
1Vews for the last five weeks, and
me-when walk into my
feeling of accbm
-Israel. What has
detailing their experiences
As walk out of cus-
plishment that.rny
have I taken from it? _
house.
insights. The four sum up on
I have a •riorrnal summer pro.granis
group had after con).-
torus am glad to be back in
these pages their ideas of what
worth of newfriends and collected-memo-
far greater - -
pletin.g an eight-hour
-Detroit.
I then look around
thejourney meant to them.
have Something
,off the
excursion of hiking
uraerstanding of
me:
While
we carne' ,
riek, but Ialso
(please
see
editorial
"Teen
knowledge, an.cl,
op -
and rappelling in the
a group, we are.
the-pele
--- a new
plane as
Correspondents Came
Int
Judean- desert 'will be
my second hoineland an
brought oUtpf customs one
Through" on Page 29.)
who live there; _a. people so Similar:to
one, individuals again. the
With e foreve,r•
by
th e hike
but, ,at times,- so,,,staftlinOy different., ,
moment
before
the.giant doors tO
Jerusalem'It is ascity whose thanJ.
history
an
up toNasada gave. ----
;.v hat
The
mo
terrninal
open,
only
one tliought remains .-
nse
e more co
arnazing,se Mare iniportint than that,
current
l'ie
are
,Inc
an
of
a_chiev,ernent-.
the greatest novelists cbkild iniagine,--r he
in my head:
"
culture that iiia4e seen
, howev'er, was the connection with a PeoPle
en will
wi I retUrn?
"
,difference
in_
--
who
were
wilting
to'Sactice-anything
to
-between,Ben Yehudah street and the !in Jewish
111:).7 f.
lives as free. Jews;
lith grq.der at North
Quarter.are amazing, and yet deep
-Freeraaa,,an
Ow a Changed
-
e
lived-their
entire
. metriber of -2
Dan"
hav
of "the
Fa,rrnington High School and
jerasaleni,.again I was still visitin.g
that
heart
I know
that
Congreoation Shaar6, Zedek, was on Has C-2.
see are
-my brethren,
3eWs. 'The all
spuality
• AS Yad Vashem and;
person. Although
lche- rip -
Sites such everyoneneNV-r
t "Western W iiiyli e,
that I have felt a„the
.irnportansuch
been. unmatched by any411,tig in
AmPlunitiOn
Bill,
,
.
and 11)-robably_will'ren6.in so, until I retUrn.
The North.The,tolli4 hills .ofithe
le -,kho
Nofth contain -rnan-i of thepeop
Conquete.d. a‘th°'-eri wild-land. so •'that 'a '
-wish. state c6u1c1 exist From their-efforts
raoshaviTn.. -. .
3e
sprung-countlesS'kilibisiiint and
a cieeper,ineaning for. me
land has
The
aver hiking fOr--hours through brown
aver toeaai`thesgreen of:a- riVer.:Tlie.
have new. meaning
:eights als6-
Golanl--"
' because of the speech.6f a single man who
has livecliii- their slia,Sow
Lastly,' have seen h6W a single great-
•
- ncle wl-i610p found
-Kibbutz,
fani-ily
floutisb-iI.-:
great u
din6.4ur
liai
helped
my
treated to tlie_hospit4it-y of 170 -. , .'• ,. .'
was
,CousinS,
far-More telatives-thanl,have i;T:;
111
the United- States ?.:, ,
Aviv:Nothing.ere is not
The Tel
city is a Cleaner; safer ;NeW-York,
ews, , e
eli„,
except it is completely full °fl
history-here IS for, the neW-Isra
drop
of
the ZiOnist.
Myrn6tioiis
range froin. , :
'
'. ,
:?:'..t.
-Stacey Gross, Samantha Kaplan, Jen Trepeck and Erika Rives enjoy their. we cream on
Ben-Yehida St.
8/7
1998
24 Detroit Jewish News