When you attend the Rothberg International School for a semester or a year – you get credits that count at your home university. With incredible academic opportunities on offer such as the Spring Harvard/RIS Initiative there are opportunities not to be missed at this world-renowned ‘Top 100′ University.

It’s amazing how different this past Shabbat was from the previous Shabbat. Last Shabbat I was in the Kfar, sick, and didn’t do anything Shabbatistic other than consume a challah. This Shabbat was Shabbat.
Friday night was disappointing at first because I didn’t realize how early Shabbat started (3:58 candle-lighting time!), so I didn’t have time [...]

Michal Negrin and Google make art together

Here’s how!(For Vancouver, BC students grade 11 & 12 and Vancouver, BC university students.)

This is a subject very close to my heart as a very good friend of mine was diagnosed with diabetes 8 months ago. My friend is a great hockey player and baseball player and he has never let diabetes stop him. But the worry is always in the back of his mind.
So I am so [...]

Hebrew University is geographically located in East Jerusalem, though it’s considered West Jerusalem. The French Hill is ambiguous; not considered a Jewish settlement, but not considered West Jerusalem, either. All of this geography is a prelude to a very simple point: from campus and my apartment, I can hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day (or [...]

Nine weeks ago I moved back to Jerusalem after spending over three years in Vancouver. I cannot remember any decision being as agonizing as that to move back home. Considering the fact that it was such a big decision to leave Israel to begin with, it’s interesting that the decision to move back was even [...]

You know how when things get busy, all you want to do when you have a spare moment is lie down and do nothing? That’s been me lately. Classes started three weeks ago already, and I haven’t written a thing. I’ve been so busy with schoolwork and dealing with idiot banks and phone companies… well, [...]

I’m very impressed that Deb Singer (I don’t know you but kudos to you) had the courage to write an honest post about spirituality – or lack there of – in her Israel experience. She had certain expectations which, from what I understand, were not exactly fulfilled.
I think that first of all the honesty in [...]

I think the weirdest part about Israel, and the thing that sets it apart from other study abroad locations, is the big emphasis on aliyah. Most people who speak fluent English in Israel, which is the vast majority of the people we meet on campus-sponsored outing or events, made aliyah at some point in their [...]