My City of Angeles

My blog originated as a way for me to keep my audience up on what I was doing abroad in Israel. Once I came back to the States I periodically wrote entries on a variety of things, mostly just as a way for me to keep on writing and getting my thoughts down. Now that I am coming back from a vacation in Los Angles I feel a little obligated to blog about what I did. And this will be my attempt to do that.

I left Ann Arbor on Thursday December 18th, for a 12 day vacation in LA. It was not all vacation for I was going there for a JESNA (Jewish Educational Services of North America) conference who were paying for my flight and three days of stay at Hess Kramer camp in Malibu. I got involved with JESNA while I was studying abroad at Tel Aviv University, I took a class that analytically looked at Jewish Education in North America. The course was two parts: the first the formal classroom at TAU and second an internship once back in the states. I really didn’t do an internship, I was supposed to help with birthright retainment but it never worked out. Nonetheless, JESNA paid for my trip out to LA and brought individuals working in Jewish education and service to come talk to our group about how to be effective and opportunities in the field. They also took us to kosher Chinese food for dinner one night, for what is Jewish Christmas without Chinese food, and to Universal CitiWalk where a bunch of us rode a mechanical bull.