Tamar's+I-Face+Project

toc = Rationale =

I have decided to write my project about my neighbor Nicole Rosenfeld, who represents a face of Israel for me. When I look at her I see a true Israeli.

Nicole made aliya when she was twelve years old. Nicole was brought up non-religious. About four years ago, her brother was killed in a military operation. Nicole has a husband and four kids. She is an actor and a dancer.

Nicole is not famous for anything heroic, but has gone through much in her life. When I had to pick a subject for this project I thought at the beginning to write it about someone famous but I wanted to write about someone who represents the "everyday" Israeli. I would like to share with you what an "every day" Israeli is to me in this project.

= Profile = I have chosen to write about Nichole Rosenfeld who is a true Israeli to me. She has gone through many periods in her life where she had many struggles to get through. I would like to share a few with you and show you how much of an extraordinary person she is.

Nichole was born in Toronto; she has 3 brothers a mom and dad. She was brought up non-religious. When Nichole was in third grade her family decided to come to Israel for a year. They went to Kibbutz Masada, where here parents were the summer before. After half a year her father started to become spiritual and they moved to Moshav Amirim, in the north part of the country. For Nicole this was very different why of life than life in Toronto. There was no telephone, no TV. She felt very lonely she did not really know any Hebrew. After another year in Moshav Amirim they moved back to Toronto.

Nichole's family stayed in Canada until she was twelve years old. When Nichole was twelve her father was becoming religious and they started keeping Shabbat. Nichole remembers when they started keeping Shabbat her friends used to call here on Saturday to invite her out to activities or here class was going on a trip. Nicole was upset at her dad for taking her through the process of becoming religious; she felt left out.

Nichole's parents decided to make aliya. When her family moved to Israel they lived in an absorption center. They stayed in the absorption center for two years. During those two years, her mom got very sick because of the bad conditions. It was very smelly and dirty. After the absorption center, her family was looking for where to move to. Her parents knew people that thought they should move to Tekoa or maybe to Efrat. Her parents stopped in Alon Shvout just to talk there to friends and fell in love with the place. They decided to move to Alon Shvout.

Today Nicole is a dancer and an actor. Nicole always wanted to be in theater since she was a little girl. But when she became religious she thought she would have to give up on being an actor because of the religious aspects of it.

When she was twenty, she went to a hand reader. Nicole told here she thought of becoming psychologist (already gave up on the idea of becoming an actor). But the hand reader told here she should become an actor or dancer-she thought maybe an actor but not a dancer. That same day she got a letter from an institute for drama she decided to go there. After studying for many years she became an actor. Nicole said that there was a stage during here career when she wanted to be on screen, but she had to make rules for herself what she was willing to do and not do as a religious women. She said that it was a frustrating stage in life in some ways wanting to be an actor on screen but also being a religious woman.

Nicole is now also a dance teacher. Nicole always thought she couldn’t dance. Three years ago she went to a class and she fell in love with dancing even though she wasn’t really any good. After the class she went up to the teacher and talked to here and asked if she knew a place she could learn dance here teacher told here that she thought a class that trains teachers. Nicole decided to join. She came to class and as she put it “they were these perfect women blond, very skinny been dancing for like twenty years”. After the fist class she was really frustrated and wanted to quit she went up to the teacher but the teacher told here not to quit and that it was only the first class. Nicole kept on coming to the class for the next year. In the end she was the only one to finish the class.

What gives Nicole much fulfillment out of life today is: she performs in an old age home she writes the script with them and helps them put on the show. Nichole thinks that they are amazing people and helps then enjoy life, she also teaches girls drama. She brings fulfillment to herself and her students by making them feel more confident with themselves and to grow in many ways.

Nicole also teaches a dance class. During her dance class she helps people have fun and connect with their bodies. What gives Nicole most fulfillment besides her work, is her husband and raising children: nothing is more fulfilling than that.

Four years ago, Nicole’s brother was killed during a military maneuver. Nicole’s parents took it in a positive way-here mom said at the funeral “it’s not what happened but what you do with it”. During the hard time the community helped a lot. But as Nicole said, “you can really only help yourself during a hard time like that”. Because of the terrible time Nicole and her family went though she appreciates her family more, her brothers and enjoys being with here family a lot more. In the next ten years Nicole sees herself dancing, acting having more interest that she did not have before. She hopes to raise here children to be B’nei Torah.

= Background Article =



**What’s a Moshav?**
A moshav is very similar to a Kibbutz they both are dedicated to community labor. They were built first by Labour Zionists during the second aliyah. Though a moshav is like a kibbutz farms on a moshav are owned by individuals but are everyone has a equal size. Not like a kibbutz where everything is shared. Works on the moshav produced crops and goods on their properties a moshav supported them self by a special tax the tax was equal for all that lived in the moshav. Which made a situation where farmers with more money where better. Not like a kibbutz where all members were spose to have the same standers. A moshav is runes by a va’ad (committee) that is elected. There are still many moshavim today.

**Moshav Amirim-**
When Nicole's family started becoming religious they moved to a moshav called amirim.

Moshav Amirim is a moshav in Merom Regional council in Israel. It is mostly populated by only vegetarians and vegans. Amirirm is located 650m. Above sea level in the hills on the road to Safed, facing the view of Yam Kinneret.

There were several attempts to establish the moshav. In the early 1950s Jewish immigrants from Morocco tried to establish the moshav though there attempt failed until 1958 when a small group of Holocaust survivors decided to try to establish a moshav built on vegetarian ideology. The people of the moshav did not agree to support there moshav by becoming part of the meat industry like most other moshavs. So the people of the moshav decided to establish guest houses for tourists from all over Israel and over seas. Today every house in Amirim had at lest to guest houses.

Today there are about 110 households, totaling about 360 adults and 135 children. Among the residents there are: university lectures, teachers, architects, engineers, social workers, hi-tech, and artists. Amirim has its own nursery and kindergarten.

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= = = Literary connection =

ספירת מלאי

__**יוסי בנאי**__

**מדינה אחת, פעמיים ים

ואגם אחד וקדחת גם,

שמש אחת עגולה

עם אחד חכם מלא סגולה,

כאב ראש אחד ושלוש גלולות

ושישה ימים ושבעה לילות

אחד אלוהינו, אלוהינו, אלוהינו

שבשמים ובארץ.

עלייה גדולה מאלפיים שנות גולה,

שתי חופשות שנתיות ואחת רגילה,

יום של ניצחון, יום של מפלה,

רגע ביטחון, שלושים ימי מחלה,

טרומפלדור בגליל וקונצ'רטו לחליל

וחצי תריסר אלופים במיל'.

אחד אלוהינו, אלוהינו, אלוהינו

שבשמים ובארץ.

עם אחד עתיק, שני שרים בלי תיק,

הראשון עצוב, השני מצחיק,

ילדות אחת קשה, שנים של התשה

ומי שרוצה עצמאות - בבקשה :

מלחמות חמש, חטיבת חרמ"ש

וחייל אחד משחק שש בש.

אחד אלוהינו, אלוהינו, אלוהינו

שבשמים ובארץ.

חיילים שלושה עייפים במשלט

ושבעים ילדים צוחקים במקלט,

שלושה אסירי ציון יצאו לחופשי,

אסיר עולם אחד בחודש השישי,

יום הילד, יום הפרח ויום השנה

וגבעה עשרים וארבע עדין לא עונה.

אחד אלוהינו, אלוהינו, אלוהינו

שבשמים ובארץ.**

**Carrying out: Skasta** **Lyrics: Yosi Bani**
 * The Counting To Fulfillment**
 * Tune: Naomi Shemer  **

One country, twice a sea One lake and Malaria to One round sun One wise nation, the chosen nation One head ace and three tablets And six days and seven nights One god, our god, our god That’s is in the heaven and earth

A large immigration after two thousand years of exile Two annual vacations and one regular A day of victory and a day of downfall A moment of confidence thirty days of illness Joseph Trumpeldor in the Galilee and concerto that played the flute Half a dozen champions at mil* One god, our god, our god That’s is in the heaven and earth

One old nation two ministers with out a file The first one sad and the second one glad A miserable childhood and years of weariness Who ever wants independence-go ahead Five battles of the "chatmar" division And one solider playing backgammon One god, our god, our god That’s is in the heaven and earth

Three tired soldiers at post And seventy laughing children in the shelter Three Zion prisoners let out to freedom And one life prisoner in his six month Childs day flowers day and the day of the year And the twenty forth hill still doesn't answer One god, our god, our god That’s is in the heaven and earth

I have chosen this poem that shows both Israel in its “good times” and during its bad times the poem is a contrast between the two times. Another point that we can see in this poem is that there is no good without bad. In the poem it talks about war, dieses, downfalls and Israeli prisoners but in contrast is talks about the victories, immigration, and our laughing children. The poem also reminds us of many historical events that have happen over the course of time that Israel has become a state. We can learn from the poem that if we try and we truly stick to our dreams and hopes, and believe in god and ourselves, in the end we will succeed

I have chosen this poem because I can relate to it very easily. As you can see in the poem at the end of every stanza it repeats itself. Talking about good and that even though things in Israel might not be perfect we have god here to protect us. Israel is god’s home. That is what I think is one the very special things about Israel. I think that every person, Israeli or not can relate to this poem. Their hardships in life may not necessarily be the specific ones mentioned in this poem, but the fact that in order to reach your Goal you have to overcome certain obstacles in life is true to every human being.

= = = Reflection =

When I started this project I was not really sure who I wanted to interview. I decided that I wanted to interview someone that would show the Weber school what a Israeli means to me and how people live here in Israel now a days. So I decided to pick my neighbor Nicole. Before I interviewed here I did not really know a lot about here. But as the project proceeded I learned a lot about here even more then I expected. I did not only learn about here life, but about many people like here at hard times people who became religious and made Aliya. She was a very interesting person to learn about. I gained a lot of new knowledge from here.

I would have liked to have shared my project a little more with the Weber school. I thought that is was a very important part of the project. To teach people in America that do not know much about Israel how we live here and what kind of people live in our society and what Israel means to us as Israelis.

During this project I have also learned many techniques of writing and what I am capable of doing. There where many aspects to this project and I enjoyed every aspect of it. Each one was a challenge in a different way. This brought me to write things I did not think I was capable of writing.

In conclusion, I think that this project was very important. But could have been done a little different. I am very satisfied of me accomplishments during this project and hope to keep on writing in the future and to expand my horizon. = Creative Connection =

My favorite place in the world. Jerusalem is very special and important to me and to every Jewish person. Our Jewish nation has fought for Jerusalem for thousand and thousands years. We today have the privilege of going there and praying at the holeyest place in the world. Today Jerusalem is not only made up of the old city but has grown much. Jerusalem has many cities besides the old city. Today live in Jerusalem over 733,300 people. I think that every person that comes to Israel has to visit Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the holiest place for 3 religions. Jerusalem is the capital of our country. There for I have decided to share in this part of the project a little bit about Jerusalem
 * Jerusalem **

= = = Bibliography =

George Medovoy. "The Israel Nobody Knows." 3 march 2008. .

"Jerusalem." 3 march 2008. .

"moshav." 3 march 2008. .

=Appendix= B rainstorming I would like to know more about about when she came to Israel how it was like about here life now! Why she became an actor and a dancer. I have gone to a class of hers to know more about here brother how she felt after he died.

Interview Questions 1. Tell me about your childhood and some of your most memorable memories. 2. What motivated your family to make aliya, and how did you feel about that?

3. I understand that your family wasn't always religious, what motivated your family to become religious and how did you feel about that?

4. What was the hardest thing about becoming religious?

5. Are all your siblings religious, and if not how do you feel about that?

6. Why did you choose to study dance and drama?

7. What were the most interesting/ fun/ challenging job assignment that you had?

8. Do you feel that there is a conflict in any way between your job and your life as a religious woman?

9. What gives you the most fulfillments in your work, and life in general?

10. What brought your family to Alon Shvut?

11. I know your brother who was an officer in the army was killed during a military maneuver, how did you react?

12. What was the most helpful during that difficult time?

13. How does it impact on you today?

14. What would you say to other families that have lost a family member who was killed while defending Israel?

15. Where do you see you’re self in 10 years?

Interview Answers

1. was born in Toronto, was not religious hade four brother, in 3rd grade her family decided to come to Israel for a year, they were thinking on going on vacation to the country but then decided to come to Israel. They went to kibbutz Masada. Where here parents were there before during the summer. After half a year here father started to become spiritual and they moved to moshav amirim. This was a very different then life in Toronto, no telephone no TV. felt very lonely here family moved back to Toronto. 2-3.here family stayed in Canada till she was twelve. She is the oldest .when she moved back to Toronto barley remembered English. When here family decided to move to Israel because they were becoming religious Nicole had a very hard time when they started becoming religious she remembers when they started keeping shabat her friends used to call here un Saturday invite her out or here class was doing something. She felt left out. When they were about to make aliya Nicole was already trying out for acting parts in plays. 4. When here family moved here they moved to an absorption center. To years where very miserable it was very smelly and dirty there. Her mom got very sick, she did not know Hebrew. 5. To are and one is not-everyone picks the way that is right for them. 6-8. she always wanted to be in theater since a little girl when she became religious she thought she would have to give up on being a actor. When she was twenty to she went to a hand reader Nicole told here she thought of becoming psychologist. But the hand reader told here she should become an actor or dancer-she thought maybe an actor but not a dancer. That same day she got a letter from מכללת אמונה-לימודי משחק she decided to go there. Nicole said that there was a stage when she wanted to be on screen she had to put rules to here self-a frustrating stage in life. Nicole is know also a dance teacher-Nicole always thought she couldn’t dance three years ago she went to a class and she fell in love with it. She went up to the teacher and talked to here and told here she thought a class that trains teachers. Nicole decided to join she came to class and as she put it “they were these perfect women blond, very skinny bin dancing for like twenty years”. After the fist class she was really frustrated and wanted to quit she went up to the teacher but the teacher told here not to quit, in the middle of the class the teachers husband came in o take pictures so she had to get dressed. In the end she was the only one to finish the class. And she I know also I dance teacher. 9. Both the drama and dance. She performs in an old age home-writes the script with them and helps them put on the show-they are amazing people helps then enjoy life, she also teaches girls drama helps them feel more confident and to grow in many ways. And here dance class help people have fun and connect with there body. What gives here most fulfillments except from here work is here husband to raise children nothing is more fulfilling then that. 10. After the absorption center they were looking to where to move, here parents new people in Toronto that thought they should move to tkoya or maybe to Efrat here parents stopped in Alon Shvout just to talk to someone and fell in love with the place, and moved to Alon shvout. 11. Here parents took it in a positive way-here mom said at the funeral “it’s not what happened but what you do with it” 12. The community helps a lot; they were there for us goring the hard times. But you can really only help your self. 13. I appreciate a lot more my family and epically my brother’s .I enjoy being with my family a lot more 15. Dancing, acting having another interest that I did not have before. Raising my children, can’t wait till my children grow up.