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Catching up (part 1 of many)

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Mark Laichena

I’ve been in and out of internet communication over the past few weeks, spending my time out of classes with a family in Ar’ara (an Arab Israeli town 10 minutes east from us on the main road), as well as the past few days on weekend two of a leadership program in Jerusalem. Life is [...]

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Posted on March 8, 2009 by Mark Laichena

I write this sitting and intermittently checking how Carolina (our basketball team) is getting on against Duke… And I guess I have a lot to reflect on. Today we were in Dalit El-Carmel, a Druze village about half an hour away. The Druze are a fascinating lot – secret religion, strict rules for marriage, and [...]

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