Postcard from the Future: A History in Jerusalem
The sun shines a lot in Jerusalem, they say. There is nowhere in the world that I want to visit more than the City of Jerusalem . As the capital of Israel and the Jewish people, I have always dreamed of visiting the Holy Land and seeing the triumph of the Jewish people that is Israel after millennia of discrimination and multiple attempts at elimination. My Jewishness is the center of my identity, and at the end of the day, that’s what I am…a Jew. I have always wanted to have a Jewish community around me, which is difficult to do in Oregon. While I have been to the East Coast and had a Jewish community at Johns Hopkins, it was only for two years. In the face of thousands of years of hate, isolation, and exclusion, it will be glorious to visit the Jewish homeland someday and share memories, community, and life with my fellow Jews. There is perhaps nowhere more worth visiting than the Wailing Wall in the Old City. The Wailing Wall is a one of the holiest sites in Judaism and is where peo