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I decided not to think like that. I allowed
Israel to take m e in rather than vice versa.
The plane finally landed at 7a.m. and
we were all greeted by the "Welcome to
Israel" sign. By 8:30, we were on the bus,
bound for Masada. I quickly became fas-
cinated how every 15 minutes we were at
a totally different landscape (and eleva-
tion, according to my ears) and climate.
Students around me were already
being "bitten" by the "Israel bug." This
bite is not a wound of any kind. It is a
love, a newfound passion, and an inner
change. I had not yet received this bite,
but I figured that it was only the first day.
Although I was only in Israel 11
short days, the trip packed so many
things into each day I felt like I was
there a month. I experienced the Dead
Sea, the diaspora museum, modern-
day Tel Aviv. I ate falafel.
Most of the people on my trip were
ready to move to the country. A cou-
ple on my trip even became engaged!
It seemed all around me that people
were dancing the music and magic
that was and is Israel.
I felt left out.
It wasn't that I didn't love the coun-
try or feel a strong sense of Judaism. I
just hadn't made that full body-and-
soul connection. When people shared
their excitement with me and asked my
feelings, I gave a sort of blase answer:
"Yeah! Israel is amazing!" As wonderful
as it was to see landscapes referred to in
the Torah, I was a little upset that my
expectations had not been met.
And then it happened.
It's actually kind of silly. Who
would have thought Brittany Spears
would influence my religious identity?
The last night, Prime Minister
Ehud Barak spoke to all the students
involved in Birthright, and then there
was a disco-type dance. As the stu-
dents poured into the room, "Baby,
One More Time" blared over the
speakers. Looking all around, I real-
ized I was truly part of something:
Not a group of people singing an
over-played song, but an individual in
a cluster of other individuals.
We were all different, having differ-
ent Jewish identities, but all here in
this Holy Land. And we were one.
This was the bug that bit me. I am
now more excited than ever about con-
tinuing my education on Israel, and I
can't wait to go back to experience it
with my now "infected" enthusiasm.
This bug bite may itch, but it's one
I can't wait to scratch. ❑

_

Rachel M. Wright of West Bloomfield
is a sophomore in premedicine and jour-
nalism at Michigan State University.

pointed to an Israeli soldier. "You see
that life will go on.
"That sense of pride will hopefully
open doors into people's minds," Papo
said, and inspire them to "take a
Jewish class, or a program at the JCC
or Hillel. Life is full of these kinds of
little decisions."
But University of Arizona graduate
school student Jesse Frantz, 24, is not
convinced.
Frantz, an intense-looking young man
with a mostly shaved head and a ring
jutting out of his left eyebrow, says his
sense of Jewishness is not tied to Israel.
An atheist, Frantz said he probably
won't walk away from the trip with any
religious convictions, but will have a
better understanding of Israeli politics.
Birthright participants toured the
entire country — they floated in the
Dead Sea, listened to settlers on the
Golan Heights talk about their uncer-
tain future, went hiking at the Ein
Gedi nature preserve, visited Yad
Vashem — but when asked about
their most moving experience, most
came back to the Western Wall.
Autumn Brietstein, 23, of New York
City, who works for a nonprofit repro-
ductiverights organization, has a prob-
lem with the separation of women at
the Wall and with Orthodox Judaism.
She also has a hard time finding a
sense of spirituality in the rituals of
Judaism. Still, the tunnels under the
Western Wall moved her.
"I guess it comes full circle for me
to be standing there, and to know
that someday, to my great-great-
great grandchildren, that place will
still be important," Brietstein said.
"And it's not that the place is more
important than what's inside — the
religion, the spirituality, comes from
within. To me, having a physical
manifestation helps to make it
meaningful."
As for Laura Senft, who cried
because she felt nothing at the Wall,
she eventually "loosened up about it
and I'm not expecting God to come
down and say, 'You're not handling
Israel the way I want you to.'"
So after her tears, she stood at the
Wall and said a prayer. Usually, she
feels very strange about expressing her-
self like that. She didn't know what to
say, so she said the Shema.
"I figured that was a good thing to
say." ❑

Andrea Golding of West Bloomfield,
a junior in merchandising management
studies at Michigan State University went
to Israel through Birthright, in collabora-
tion with ffnai B'rith Youth Organization.

