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“The world stands on three things<br />
Torah, work, and good deeds. ”<br />
Here’s just a sample of the many volunteer projects that<br />
<strong>Rothberg</strong> students have participated in.<br />
Center for the Blind<br />
The most rewarding experience I have had since arriving in Israel has been working with a<br />
visually challenged Israeli student I met through the Center for the Blind here on campus. The<br />
Center for the Blind at the Hebrew University is one of the country’s most sophisticated institutes<br />
for the visually challenged in Israel: offering an array of services and activities for nonsighted<br />
students in the same courses. Volunteers are needed to read course articles not on tape<br />
and for extra curricular activities like tandem bike-reading. This experience has been positive for<br />
a number of reasons. As luck would have it, I was paired with a great guy with whom I share<br />
common interests. We are now close friends. I have also met several Israelis through him, like<br />
his parents and his old high school gang up in Kiryat Motzkin. More importantly, I have been<br />
introduced to a new reality (the reality of the visually impaired) and have been forced to look<br />
upon the challenges I face daily with a greater sense of humor and patience. In addition, this<br />
experience has provided me with a greater feeling of purpose and place in Jerusalem (I am not<br />
Jewish or religious), whereas before I constantly questioned my decision to come here. Finally, I<br />
am happy to write that I have actually discovered an area of Jerusalem life undamaged by political,<br />
ethnic, and religious tensions. Visually challenged people, after all, can only judge a person<br />
on character, and to be with a person possessing this gift is refreshing to say the least.<br />
-Dawn Morris<br />
Kol Ha-lsha: The Woman’s Voice<br />
Kol Ha-lsha is a non-profit women’s center located in downtown Jerusalem which<br />
promotes a feminist model of social change while addressing the needs of women in Jerusalem.<br />
Kol Ha-lsha includes a women’s resource and referral center, support groups, a women’s art<br />
gallery, lecture series and monthly memorial vigils for women murdered each month.<br />
As an intern with Kol Ha-lsha for the past eight months, I have been presented with an<br />
inside view of the status of women within Israeli society. In Jerusalem, a city diverse in its<br />
population, I worked with Palestinian and Mizrahi women as well as women from Ethiopia,<br />
America and Europe.<br />
The most valuable part of my experience at Kol Ha-lsha was working on a KAB<br />
(Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior) study of Israeli women and the HIV/AIDS virus.<br />
-Yael Cohen
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