Matt Cohen's Profile
Brookline, MAI am a member of the Boston-Haifa Connection Young Leadership Committee and also serve as BHC's blogger on JewishBoston.com. Please feel free to email me with questions, comments, or blog submissions at matt_t_cohen@yahoo.com.
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A Year of Opportunities Through OTZMA
This article was first published on The Jewish Federations of North America's Federation Connection blog Amazing. Life-changing. Inspirational. I can think of a lot of...
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Yom Yerushalayim: The Essence of Zionism
"Im eshkachech Yerushalayim, tishkach yemini"/"If I forget you, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand wither."From the moment I first knew I wanted to come to...
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Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha'Atzma'ut in Israel
The Fourth of July is perhaps my favorite American holiday. So it should be no surprise that Yom Ha’atzma’ut is one of my favorite Israeli...
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The Great Outdoors
I can't say I've gotten everywhere I wanted to during this Part 2 of Otzma (sorry southerners), but I did get up to Kiryat Shmona...
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Purim in Tel Aviv
There’s no holiday quite like Purim. From the costumes, to sounding the graggers during megillah reading, to the Talmudic commandment to drink as a way...
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Matty's Israel Adventures
Hi all, My name is Matt, and I'm a lifelong Bostonian spending the year living in Israel. I'm a participant on OTZMA, a volunteer-based program...
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