[Magdalen] Kaddish [was Re: RIP Leonard Nimoy

[Lynn Ronkainen]

From: "ME Michaud"
> Some of my childhood friends went to "Hebrew camp,"


My closest friend in college (start of the 70s) had a younger sister who 
fell in love with a Jewish guy who was determined to move to Israel (this 
was only a few brief years after the '3 day War').  She converted, not an 
easy task, having been discouraged to do so by several rabbis... and they 
married and moved to a kibbutz (his dream) and for 5 years they washed eggs 
at a 'frontier' location and had 2 children. Sometime in the early 80s they 
returned to the states, he, very much disillusioned.  They  moved home and 
to suburban Detroit where they both grew up and went to Temple, and both 
went to work in the corporate world for about 10 more years. Once again they 
decided to return to Israel.  I'm not sure what drew them back, but I do 
know that they live  in a large city (possibly Jerusalem) and the husband 
has worked in the private sector.  They live there to this day and have 3 
grown kids.  Sadly, I have been woefully out of touch with my college friend 
and have been meaning to call her one of these days.

Lynn, remembering the zeal of American Jews my age who did this and more, 
including moving to Israel to join their military after the '3 day war'.... 
and also  remembering the book by James Michener, not cast in the usual 
epoch of history from ancient times format - _The Drifters_  an interesting 
novel set in that time, involving a bunch of hippy'esque kids traveling in 
Europe and the UK and US,  influenced by the politics of the USA and the 
world. The characters in the book were also in Chicago during the fateful 
Democratic convention of '72.
Lynn

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> which probably should have been called "Zionist camp," and
> some came back very changed by the experience. I still
> remember their refusal to bow their heads during the
> morning recitation of the Lord's Prayer (yes, we used to
> recite at the beginning of the school day in the public
> schools). When they got older they went to Israel, too.
> I think they all came back, though.
>
> We has many a giggle when Netanyahu was elected. One of
> my colleagues is married to a professor af Brandeis, and so
> knew him socially. She couldn't believe someone she'd met
> when he was a student was now a prime minister.
> -M