I am also writing on a Brit's laptop, so excuse my typing errors. Just to give people a sense of Pardes-- it's like a NFTY/BBYO/USY/NCSY convention for adults. There is great diversity among the participants (people are from the US, the UK, Poland, Moscow, and other places....we range in age from college student through the man who was a child when Israel became a state in 1948, and nearly every age and stage of life in between). Though we are diverse in background, we are like-minded in interest in learning. The classes reach us all, though we range from Reform rabbi through Orthodox rabbinical student, and (again) everything in between. There is also, of course, a social aspect (last night, we enojoyed a wine and cheese social gathering, and then joined a group of new friends for falafel on Emek Refaim Street), which we love.
Bottom line- we are having a great time, learning heaps, and enjoying being in Israel together.
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