bring us back to our home shaking and weeping bring us back with songs of joy bring us back to our land praying and dancing bring us back no longer alone we’re looking for a realist’s miracle we’re looking for peace of mind we’re looking for an end to mourning we’re looking with longing for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘birthright’
memory (looking for an end to mourning)
Posted in General, Poetry, tagged birthright, israel, memory, poem, song on January 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Yiddish on Taglit-Birthright Israel
Posted in Yiddish, tagged birthright, israel, teaching, Yiddish on January 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This is the second year in a row that I led a conversational Yiddish class as a Shabbos workshop option for students participating in a Taglit-Birthright Israel: Hillel trip. Last year, about twenty students ultimately came–this year, it was four, plus my guard/medic. (Turns out he speaks Yiddish! My Hebrew is terrible, and his English [...]
