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May 23, 2013, 5:42 PM
LIttle Mermaid, Big Heart.
America is looming in my near future like a big floating cloud of distant memories and the people I love the most, that make me feel like I'm sinking to be so far from. I am only days away from...
Apr 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 life, is coming to an end. With just a bit...
Apr 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 and sacred to me. I feel the ripples still from the...
Mar 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' I mean, still am. I'll start my updated started back when...
Mar 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 amount of bearing in the community. It is an online...
Feb 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 forty-five, toss a Tupperware with dinner leftovers and maybe an...
Jan 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 living-abroad experience based on friends' stories and simply the fact...
Dec 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 out that my elementary school was putting on a Hanukkah...
Nov 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 with the rest of my group somewhere between 6 am...
Nov 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 far removed from it, since my group leaders pulled us...
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Melissa Beiser has a bachelor's degree from SUNY New Paltz in English and creative writing. She hails from New York originally and recently relocated to Arizona with her family. Teaching English in Beersheba is her first experience living abroad.
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