Letters to TA from Israel — Summer, 2006

This summer, during the conflict with Hezbollah in northern Israel and southern Lebanon, Rabbi Perkins was in Israel, studying at the Hartman Institute in Haifa, and his wife Elana joined him there. Meanwhile, our sister congregation in Kiryat Bialik, a suburb north of Haifa, was under air raid alert and holding services in a bomb shelter. Later in July, TA President Glenn Levine and Youth Committee co-chairman Joey Baron also traveled to Israel on a CJP mission.

Rabbi Perkins sent us three emails from Israel:

• Is This How a War Begins? (July 16)
• “Routine” Shelling (July 26)
• "Od Yavo Shalom" (July 27)

… and one from Needham after he returned:

• Last Letter (August 8)

Elana also sent us one email:

• Letter from Jerusalem (July 27)

as did Rabbi Balter:

• Letter from the bomb shelter

and he forwarded an email fro one of his congregants about the Bar Mitzvh at the synagogue the past shabbat:

• Bar Mitzvah in Kiryat Bialik

And the president of the congregation, Raanan Gal, sent an email to Ronni and Amos Eisenberg:

• email of July 18

And the president of Temple Aliyah, Glenn Levine, was also in Israel, on the CJP “Follow Me to Israel” mission, along with Joey Baron, and he also sent us his observations:

• “Mission Trip” (August 4)