Masa Israel Journey Blog

Welcome to My Life

Published : June 19, 2012

By Lauren Rosenblum, Israel Teaching Fellows - Ma'ase Olam

What's Lauren doing with a blog, you might ask?

Well, considering I'm leaving August 25 for 10 months, I thought it might be a good idea to keep everyone updated on what I'm doing! Why am I starting it now?

I'm trying to get in the habit of blogging now rather than trying to start while I'm gone. I've never had a great track record of keeping up with a journal or diary, so my goal is to actually keep this as updated as possible!

So - in a nutshell - here is a few bullet points of what I am up to currently:

- Working as the administrative assistant at Temple Akiba in Culver City, CA

- Spending Memorial Day Weekend in New York

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How Career Israel impacted my career--going to Medical School

Published : June 18, 2012

By Livnat Blum, Career Israel

I graduated from college wanting to experience something different, to have a little adventure and give back to a needing community. I applied to the Peace Corps, but I realized that I could do all of that as well experience Israel through a Masa program: the Career Israel internship program.

Livnat and Negin in the Negev!

I chose to participate in Career Israel because of the flexibility it offered – I could use their help when I needed it (housing, internships, etc), but be on my own when I wanted.

Although I was born inIsrael, experiencing the country with other Jews my own age from around the world was...