“My name is Jeremy Glassman, and I had the pleasure of staying with Rabbi Sigler and his family, in your Jerusalem residence the Shabbos before last. I have been very much involved with MEOR events, and their affiliated programs since I was a freshman in college at George Washington University in Washington, DC. However, even though I’ve been to Israel a few times before on Birthright, MEOR Israel, and MEOR Vision, for some strange reason I wasn’t that connected with the Holy Land. No matter how I looked at it, I was a Jewish American in a foreign land, with a despairingly different culture. Through MEOR I was able to grow in my Jewish learning, and very soon after I graduated in May, I continued to grow to become shomer Shabbat. That was a big step for me; to take pride in my Jewish heritage and finally identify first as a Jew, and then as an American. The Shabbos before last was my first Shabbat in the land of Israel as a shomer shabbat American Jew. It was such an amazing, and transcendental experience. I am so happy to be in the land of our people, and I want to thank you so much for opening your home to our program. Many Blessings.
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— Jeremy Glassman, 2017