Israel Trip - January 2013
In January 2013, Mark Hoesly (Director of Global Education), Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus (Professor of Religion and reconstructionist rabbi) and Mark LeBlanc (Professor of Computer Science)
bonded during a nine-day, whirlwind tour
of four campuses in Israel. The objective: determine if the respective colleges (Haifa University, Hebrew University,
and Ben-Gurion University) and their OverSea Programs (OSP) met the expectations of Wheaton College (Norton, MA),
both academically and as a source of Israeli cultural immersion. Links to pictures at various stops along the way
will share some of the excitement, history, generous hosts, and good food and wine experienced along the way.
We were likened by one hotel host as "three men in a boat" (a reference to "Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog...)", an 1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome). And so, our trip ends with a new edition to our reading list ...
