Moskovitz and 15 minutes

I had endured an entire year of Zionist propaganda. I don't mean that in the awful way; I'm not calling it lies, but certainly there was, obviously, another side to the argument. For a whole year, and most of my life, I'd heard the Zionists' side of the story. But it was heavily stressed in that past year.

So, if I had to spend another year in Israel, I figured I might as well hear the other side of the story.

Let me clarify. Trying to here the other side was partly backlash from excessive B'nei Akiva and Machon Meir, but it wasn't that I had, in the process, became anti-Zionist. At the very least, this was a way to learn the other side of the story. At the very least.

So, I signed up for this class, History of Islam. It taught me a lot about the year at Ben Gurion would be like. "OK, welcome to the class, History of Islam. I am Professor Moskovitz." I wasn't the one who responded, but I think most of us felt the same way.

"Your name is Prof...Moskovitz?"

"Yes, I wrote it on the board."

"So...you're Jewish?"

"Well, yes. But..." He was a very academic individual and well respected. He wasn't religious; but he still had served in the Israeli Army. We had Dr. Hatfield teaching us all about The History of The McCoys.

The school seemed to teem with this nonchalant attitude. It was specifically nonchalant. The most prominent example was the times. History of Islam was listed as being from two to four on Wednesdays and Thursdays. That meant that on Wednesdays and Thursdays you showed up at two-fifteen, and left at three-forty-five. This wasn't the unofficial student rule that we agreed upon. This was the official rule of the school. Somewhere along the line, the teachers came to the conclusion that we need to relax the rues, so they officially made the unofficial, official. Gotta love it when they amend the rules, on account of laziness.

Get me outa here!!!

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Michael Kadish

"People do not quit playing because they grow old ... They grow old because they quit playing." -Oliver Wendell Holmes