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Getting Centered

Eric Schorr — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:26:36 +0000

For the past six months I have witnessed many things here in Israel. I witnessed an American presidential election for the first time while outside of the United States. I witnessed what some considered a war and what others considered just an operation. I witnessed the world pay an inordinate amount of attention to the [...]

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A Missed Opportunity, ’47-’12

Eric Schorr — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:51:58 +0000

Today is November 29, 2012, 65 years to the day that the United Nations voted to partition British Mandated Palestine into two separate states, one Jewish and one Arab. The phrase I have grown to saying most often in reference to this simultaneously happy and sad day is that “whereas the Jews accepted the plan, [...]

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Reality Checks In

Eric Schorr — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:47:43 +0000

Surreal? Unimaginable? Inexplicable? How do you describe the feeling of living under terror, in fear of what the next day, the next hour, or even the next minute will bring? I didn’t know this feeling; I still don’t quite know it. Not as well as others in this country. Not as well as people living [...]

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Aliya — and then a wave hits

Eric Schorr — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:20:37 +0000

It’s a whirlwind. A blur of faces, hands, and names. And lines, dreadful, tiring but ultimately rewarding lines. There are questions too. Who, what, why. But never where. Where is acknowledged in every person’s eyes, in their actions, in their hearts. It is known and unspoken. It is a given. There is the movement, like [...]

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Remembering Michael Levin: Follow Your Heart

Eric Schorr — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:00:57 +0000

In the summer of 2006 while working at Camp Ramah Day Camp in Philadelphia, I was coming back from a work shift when a dark sedan pulled up to the entrance of our building. Men in suits shuffled out of the car, went inside, and then escorted one of my fellow staffers, Dara Levin, into [...]

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