Jerusalem (and I understand anti-Arab racism now)

So I have yelled at Keren and Zohar for being SO racist against Arabs; then I had to take public transportation to Jerusalem and no longer hold it against them.

Elana (the friend from Mac/UofM) told me I should take this little shuttle instead of the bus... because the real advantage is you NEVER relax while you're on the bus...

Well, I got on, and there was an Arab woman in a head-dress sitting there, too. And what did I do? I looked around and picked the seat where I thought I would be most likley to survive after she blew-herself up. I realized the racism involved when I was making this choice, and at the same time will continue to do it....it's amazing how this policy of terror breeds nothing but more bile.

That aside, I got in safely to Jerusalem (after a long delay because of a minor car accident...it seems that 'rubber-necking' is even more well liked in Israel).

Elana met me at the stop, and we headed off to a Cafe to sit, have a drink, and have big discussions about impossible things. It was actually realy nice to see her, and pretty quickly we picked up in our friendship where we left off months ago--was really nice.

Afterwards we headed out to see some of her other HUC buddies, and eventually made out way back to her place and all sat around and sang camp songs and smoked hookah...was a fun night.

Oh---the other big news right now--- 11:30 am, Feb 1st is my interview date for HUC.

Hope all is well, please continue to keep me updated (and I'm uploading pictures as we speak)


Daniel