Harvard Israel Trek 2019

24 Photographs

Israel Poem/Palestine Poem

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Israel Poem.

Sea shell sings its whispers. Who knows how

but an ear. 

Good music. To where, to how, who knows but

Re-encountering Spirituality During Israel Trek

By Sahana Bail

Israel Trek: Photo Blog

Part 1: Jerusalem.

Reflecting on Israel Trek 2019

Every time I sit down and reflect on my experience in Israel and the…

Harvard Israel Trek Video

Attached is the sub-par yet heartfelt video that I made to try to highlight a simple glimpse of this incredible trip. I am so grateful to everyone who made this possible (especially the Trek leaders and the donors), and I am so appreciative of all my fellow Trekers — y’all are truly incredible :)

Thoughts and Photos and Such

This reflection took me a long time to write. I never felt like I could express how grateful I was for the…

Déjà vu

Déjà vu. I did not understand the true meaning of this phrase until I came to Israel. I experienced Déjà vu every day during the Trek. As I was eating selected Mediterranean cuisines made from selected Mediterranean ingredients, as I was interacting with the locals and noticing their strange-to-an-American but…

An Attempt

How do you write a kaleidoscope into words? That’s next-level ekphrasis I’m definitely not qualified to tackle.

Alas!

I might as well try.

(After all, if this piece weren’t something of a kombina, would it really be an authentic…