One more quick note about our trip to Israel. On Thursday morning, a few of us opted out of the dig at Beit Guvrin, having been there in 2005, and opted to go shopping on Ben Yehuda Street instead. So Elinor, Ilene and I started out from the hotel to walk to Ben Yehuda Street, an easy stroll on a beautiful morning. We had gone only a couple of blocks, perhaps, when I looked across the street and recognized the hotel where I had stayed in 2002. I actually recognized the corner and exclaimed to my friends, "I know where I am--I stayed there in 2002 and the Sheraton is there and there's the SuperSol (grocery store) where we bought lunch on the last day and that's the artist's gallery we went into a couple of times." What a kick to feel so familiar when I was actually 6,000 miles from New Jersey and feeling as much at home as I would walking on Cedar Lane in Teaneck.
If you haven't been to Israel yet, or haven't visited in a number of years, you should consider going. It is safe and wonderful and we should all touch base with our spiritual homeland at some point. I encourage you all to consider a trip soon.
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