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BRUCE ARMSTRONG
1970s - USA

HOWARD BERKOWITZ 
1970s, USA -rmberkowitz@att.net

Hi! 
I was a volunteer from September through November 1974.  I paid a brief visit back to Israel back in 1984, courtesy of the US Navy, but haven't seen the place since I left 27 years ago.  I've spoken to Tom Witt and Roslyn Daufman (Luper) since then, and I'm sure that I'd enjoy talking to more of you folks from that era if I could remember who you were...  Oh yes, I'm married now, with a lot less hair and a lot more other stuff since the good
old days.  Ah well, time marches on and pauses to kick us as it goes by.
Greetings,
Howard (ZVI) Berkowitz

MICHAEL CARASIK - 
1970s -  USA mcarasik@sas.upenn.edu

    I spent the end of the '70s as a computer programmer, and wrote Jewish software for the Apple II computer (of blessed memory) for most of the first half of the '80s, meanwhile taking various classes in Jewish studies.  I eventually figured out that what I wanted to learn about was Bible, and went to Brandeis in 1987 for graduate school.
    I had always claimed I wanted to be a writer, but never actually wrote anything; eventually I realized I didn't have anything to say.
 Becoming a biblicist let me find my voice as a writer.
    I had always assumed that I'd prefer research, and would have to teach to earn a living.  When I did begin to teach in 1990 or so, I discovered that I loved it.  I defended my dissertation in 1996.  I have never had a full-time professorship, but I've never had any trouble getting the exploitive part-time kind.
    I got married in 1993.  My wife is a physical therapist and a physical anthropologist, one of the few Orthodox Jews who ever served in the Peace Corps.  (Also the world expert on how your foot works, and she has just invented a new ballet shoe.)  She had moved to Boston because I was there but wasn't happy with her job; so we decided who ever got the first offer we wanted to take, that's where we would move.  It was her; she teaches physical therapy at a med school here in Philadelphia.  It has actually turned out to be a great location for me to put together gigs -- at this point, more of them than I actually want.  Outside of teaching Biblical Hebrew at Penn and chanting Torah at a synagogue on Saturday mornings, next year I'm going to spend working on a book project for the Jewish Publication Society.

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JOHN HUNT 
1960s, USA brother_rocklizard@yahoo.com  (the work space bar is necessary). At KB in 1960s.. Currently in Campbell, California, working as a jeweler at Davidson & Licht.  after a ulpan at Kfar Blum, I went to Jerusalem and the Hebrew U. then returned to KB as a volunteer. 

J-L

MICHAEL LEWIS - JMichaelLewis@AOL.com On the Kibbutz, in the mid-1970s, I worked in the orchards - picking apples in the summer; pruning trees in the winter; laundry; kitchen; and garden; and also briefer spells with the chickens, guest house, cotton fields, laying irrigation pipes, roses and fish ponds. I lived in the shacks (which are presumably no longer there) behind what were the ulpan classrooms, near the bus stop. Among the KB memories, I remember taking the bus into Kiryat Shemona, hitching a ride (those were the days!) back to Kfar Blum. (To be continued!)...Originally from London,  I've been  living in the United States for the past 20+ years.... 

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