In this very difficult summer for Israel a large number of our staff spent parts or all of the summer in Israel. Those staff members inlcude Alison Bender Kellner and Cindy Mann who spent nearly the whole summer in Israel; and Amy Erani, Cantor Yehuda Rossier, Irit Kornblit, Iris Aharon and Erica Sokoloff, all of whom spent parts of the summer there. They will no doubt be sharing their experiences with the rest of our faculty and our students