After much consideration, I've decided to "re-open" my blog. I'm back in the holy land except this time instead of studying in an abroad program, I'm living in the real world (whatever that means). I'm paying rent, going food shopping, working (well, doing an unpaid internship) and negotiating the bureaucratic mess of everyday life. But just because I've entered the real world does not mean I have to stop learning. In fact, that's the real reason I've decided to re-open my blog. This time, instead of sharing what I've been up to, I'd like to open up discussions about things I'm thinking about regarding politics, religion, and the realities of a post-college life.
At Kenyon, it was easy to run into someone from class and sit and talk for hours about politics, religion or philosophy. While I've been very lucky thus far to work at a think-tank, attend academic conferences, learn with various rabbis and talk about politics with almost everyone I meet, it is still not the same as college. At school, you could visit a professor during office hours just because you had something you wanted to talk about. I keep having to remind myself that I'm a research assistant for my boss, she's getting paid to work and publish, not to teach me. I've actually been really lucky that I've been able to meet with her so often and that she's been helping me a lot to learn about politics in the region. She also encouraged me to co-write an op-ed with her (I'll make it an entry later on).
Anyway, the benefit of modern technology is that those conversations from school can continue. I want to put up thoughts/ideas and I want comments (please). Not all of my opinions are fully formed and even entirely what I think so call me out on fallacies.
It is also really easy to write the first blog entry and then to never continue. If I fail, please don't blame me. If this blog turns into a "where to eat for really cheap in Tel Aviv" don't blame me either (people need to know). If, a few entries in, I realize I am incriminating myself with my opinions and quite, don't blame me either. Anyway, here commences my experiment.
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