How a Semester in Israel Helped Me Become a Jewish Leader
July 26, 2024
By Douglas Heizer for The Boca Raton Tribune.
In January of 2023, I left my friends, family, and everything familiar to me behind 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 who would be on my program, unaware of what to expect, and having no idea that this experience would completely change my life, shape me into the person that I am today, and turn the group of strangers that I was about to meet into family.
