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Aviva Goldish
Cleveland Jewish News
08-09-1996
My incredible year in Israel.

AVIVA GOLDISH Special to the CJN

Having recently returned from a year of study in Israel, I look back in amazement at my experiences, and disbelief at the history I have lived through.

Living in Israel, and visiting Israel, I have learned, are two totally different things. True, I was a student at a school in which the student body consisted entirely of Anglo-Saxons. However, I tried to remove myself to some degree from being "American," attempting to get the real "Israel experience." And get it, I did.

I was lucky to have many friends and relatives scattered throughout Israel, with whom I could not only spend a ...

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