About a week has gone by. We went on tours of the Jewish quarter area which is now, ironically, the richest town in the area with all of these high end 5th avenue shops. We visited the old-new synagogue, the oldest synagogue still in use today and went to Friday night services there yesterday. We went to the cemetery where Kafka was buried as well as the old one in the Jewish quarter along with the holocaust memorial. We also saw the Spanish Synagogue. We went on a tour of the old city and the castle and some old church. We also went to this 5 story club by the Charles Bridge called Karlove Lasne which was pretty cool. We had a week full of Czech language which is ridiculous and we are ready to start the normal class schedule on Monday.
I went to Rabbi Hoffberg's for lunch again today and he had Rabbi Dushinsky over as well as a man named Menashe and his wife Analiza who are from Finland, living in Prague for another couple months and are then moving back to Yemin Moshe in Israel. Rabbi Hoffberg loves to tell stories but Rabbi Dushinsky loves to talk even more so it was a funny dynamic between the two of them. Rabbi Hoffberg would be telling a story, Dushinsky would interrupt and Rabbi Hoffberg would yell at him for interrupting. It was very funny.
Tomorrow we are going to the town of Pilzen about an hour and a half away by train
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