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Thoughts on Education
By Gary Lipman 1/27/2009Somehow the days in Israel just seem longer than back home in Stamford…or maybe it just seems that way when traveling on a JCC Association Israel seminar. For many people, today was their first full day in Israel, and I don’t know how they made it through. From an early wake-up call at 7:00 a.m. until just now at 10:30 p.m., there hasn’t been a free moment. Of course, there also hasn’t been a 15-minute period when someone wasn’t shoving food into us.
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