The Summer ’93 Jerusalem Center semester was an experience I’m sure we all remember well. Our semester was unique in that just months previously the World Trade Center had been bombed. As a result some of the rules regarding security and border crossings changed (possibly for all students going forward) and our itinerary changed. Fighting at the Lebanon border prevented us from seeing the northern Galilee sites. Rather than Egypt, we finished things up in Jordan, which was possibly even better. We enjoyed learning from Brother Chadwick, Brother Top, Brother Peterson, Brother Ladle, and Brother Masters-whose bus, per our memory book, was “always last except for the Jordan miracle”. Brother Chadwick told us quite a few times that, “We were there, at that time, for a specific reason”. Maybe some of us now understand that reason, maybe some are still figuring it out.Nevertheless, hopefully you, like I, refer back to it for the wonderful memories and testimonies we created and shared with each other. -Shalom aleichem!
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