[Magdalen] Kaddish [was Re: RIP Leonard Nimoy

[Jay Weigel]

One of my good friends in jr. high/high school was from Tel Aviv and
eventually returned there. She became an archaelogist and is well known for
her work in marine archaeology. At the time of our 40th class reunion she
cautioned us all that Israel was just "not a very nice place now." Like my
other dear Israeli friends, she is a leftist and no friend of Bibi. All my
Israeli friends feel "stuck" for various reasons. Michal was born there, a
true sabra. Neil emigrated in the early 1970s. Noa was raised both in the
US and Israel but her parents were immigrants to Israel from a country that
did not want them. Yitzhak was a stateless person before he was deported to
Israel. They all love their country, but....! Kind of like some of us that
are pretty unhappy with the way things are here presently, I guess.

On Sunday, March 1, 2015, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: "ME Michaud"
>
>> Some of my childhood friends went to "Hebrew camp,"
>>
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> 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
>
> My email has changed to: houstonKLR at gmail.com
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>
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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
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