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Melissa Beiser

Melissa Beiser has a bachelor's degree from SUNY New Paltz in English and creative writing… [More]

April 30, 2013
8:34 pm

Summer’s End.

I've heard and read before that to go forward, you must go back. For me, my journey in Israel, at least this specific journey, at this specific time in my......

April 17, 2013
5:18 pm

a series of remembrances.

Remembering is something we do with our hearts, our eyes, our noses, & our ears. When song is wrapped around a moment, it makes it so much more golden......

March 30, 2013
3:35 pm

This Year In Kiryat Gat.

Maybe I tried to convince myself would mean tackling and expressing emotions that I wasn't completely comfortable with. By 'maybe' I mean, this is the reason and by 'wasn't'......

March 14, 2013
11:28 pm

lead or be lead.

I spent the last five days at the 2013 Masa Leadership Summit. The Masa Leadership Summit is a free seminar outside of our Masa required programming that has a certain......

February 3, 2013
9:48 pm

The kindness of strangers

I have a pretty tried and true morning routine now that I'm in my fifth month of my MASA volunteer teaching program in Be'er Sheva. I wake up at six......

January 25, 2013
6:21 pm

As January ends

As January lazily draws to a close, so do the first five months of my ten month program. I knew that five months would not be enough time for a......

December 18, 2012
11:42 pm

My First Hanukkah in Israel.

Originally, I had somewhat epic plans to go home to Erad with my boyfriend to experience his Yemen family traditions (and cooking). I was really excited--but then, it turned......

November 30, 2012
2:05 pm

A tale of Shabbat

How I spent my Shabbat this past week was probably one of the strangest I’ve had in a while, at the very least while in Israel. I was woken up......

November 18, 2012
11:43 am

A Haunted Home.

'I am fully aware that my current home city of Be'er Sheva is not a ghost town and yet I still picture it that way in my head. I feel......

November 10, 2012
2:41 pm

Stopping traffic

I remember trying to approach the doctor at the hospital with a bit of a sense of humor when he asked me how I was feeling and I replied,......

November 4, 2012
9:00 pm

An Israeli-American Halloween

Halloween used to be great fun for me back in New York, growing up in the suburbs of Long Island. I was a happy trick-or-treater as I skipped along......

November 2, 2012
10:58 pm

Courted by Israel

I choose to remember it more than anything as a slightly hazy three days that is blurred by a mixture of blue and white balloons, exotic music, and thick......

October 30, 2012
8:34 pm

Lead me home

If Birthright is the honeymoon (or Taglit for those who don’t call it Birthright), my current long term Israel program is a combination between marriage and reliving the glory......