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Muss High School Israel Staff & EducatorsReuven Spero - Muss High School Israel Educator | July 5, 2024
Week 1 with Explore Israel and Entrepreneurship
Shalom all! Our long-awaited summer sessions began just one week ago, but if you ask our students I'm sure they will tell you if feels like they have been here for far longer.
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Ari Schwartzman - Summer 2024: Classic Israel | June 27, 2024
Forming a Connection
The war has always been something far away.
Alumni SpotlightPhoebe Nissanoff - Spring Semester 2023 | June 24, 2024
How Muss Helped Me Become a Jewish Leader - An Alumna Spotlight
In January of 2023, I left my friends, family, and everything familiar to me behind in order to spend a semester in Israel at Alexander Muss High School in Israel (Muss). I nervously sat on the plane that day, not knowing anyone that would be on my
Alumni SpotlightBarri Seitz - Summer 2021: Foundations Israel | June 20, 2024
Reshaping My Jewish Identity with Muss - An Alumna Spotlight
I always knew I would attend Alexander Muss High School in Israel (Muss). Both of my parents attended the school in the early ‘90s, and their first date was dinner before a local Muss reunion in Atlanta. Their wedding ketubah was even made by the
Alexander Muss High School in Israel | June 7, 2024
Rooted in Heritage: Shavuot at Alexander Muss High School in Israel
Next week, we will be celebrating Shavuot in Israel and around the world. Known as the Feast of Weeks, Shavuot is a time of profound significance in the Jewish calendar, marking both the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and the celebration of the
Alexander Muss High School in Israel | May 31, 2024
Perhaps
Perhaps it was never so.PerhapsI never woke early and went to the fieldsTo labor in the sweat of my browNor in the long blazing daysOf harvestOn top of the wagon laden with sheaves,Made my voice ring with songNor bathed myself clean in the calmBlue
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Student BlogNoa Mittelman - Spring Semester 2024 | May 21, 2024
Commemoration and Celebration
As my friends and I are approaching the end of our Muss journey, we have had so many opportunities to immerse ourselves in Israeli culture and society. I’ve been to Israel before but have never experienced being here for Yom HaZikaron and Yom
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Hannah Boronski - Muss High School Israel Educator | May 16, 2024
Israelis Are Known for Being Direct
Two Israelis stand in a shop, one trying on a coat.
Sima Oberlander - Muss High School Israel Educator | May 9, 2024
Yom HaShoah This Year
It is a personal day for us as my father-in-law is a Holocaust survivor. His father secured fake documents for their family of three, and they lived as gentiles in Poland. Only through quick wit, strategic thinking, and luck did they elude discovery
Alumni SpotlightMallory Mosner - Spring Semester 2008 | May 6, 2024
What Israel Means to Me - An Alum Spotlight
The following essay originally appeared in the now defunct newspaper The Jewish Transcript in 2009. It was also my college admission essay; I wrote this half of my lifetime ago at the tender age of sixteen, having recently come back from living in
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Muss High School Israel Staff & EducatorsHepzibah Alon - Muss High School Israel Educator | May 1, 2024
Let’s Talk About Hope
It is almost seven months into the war, and we are starting to come to terms with the reality of our new situation: some 1,200 Israelis brutalized and murdered within our own borders, over 130 innocent people still held hostage in Gaza, thousands of
Reuven Spero - Muss High School Israel Educator | April 28, 2024
Menschlech'keit, Wonderment, and Muss High School Israel
Over the past two weeks, I was immersed first in traveling to Poland with my class, and then immediately afterwards, celebrating Pesach with my family. It was perhaps my 15th or 20th trip to Poland, and I wondered if perhaps visiting and teaching in