Meet Your Staff: Jon, Jamie, and Or
Jamie Kramer Peters
Where are you from originally and where do you live now? Originally from Michigan, but currently living in Maryland.
What do you do for a living? I work in an outpatient mental health hospital teaching adolescents.
When did you go to Israel for the first time? When I was younger, I went with my family through a synagogue program.
What's your favorite place to visit in Israel? My favorite place to visit is Caesarea.
What's a fun fact about yourself? I have biked around Lake Michigan twice starting in Oconomowac Wisconsin and ending in Muskegon.
What's your favorite Israeli food/favorite place in Israel to eat it? Street food!
Where is your favorite place to take groups on Taglit? Masada.
If there was one aspect of Israel that you could bring back to America with you, what would it be? The feeling you have when you are there.
What's the #1 reason that you recommend that your friends and family should go on Taglit-Birthright Israel with Shorashim? Going to a place that you truly feel at home as soon as your plane lands in, eating, and experiencing something unlike anything you have experienced before all with amazing people that will become your best friends.
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What's your favorite part about Shorashim? When the group lands in Israel, we do something very amazing!
What is a fun fact about yourself? I jumped the Navis bungee river in New Zealand. It's the second most highest bungee in the world.
What is your favorite place in Israel and why? Jerusalem- just incredible an magical place. No one can explain the feeling!
What's your favorite place to take participants on Taglit and why? The old city of Jerusalem.
What's your favorite Israeli food? Where's your favorite place in Israel to eat it? Couscous from my mother's kitchen and olives of all kinds on Machane Yehuda market.
What's your favorite thing about Israel? The people.
Why is it important to you to have Israelis on the trip for all 10 days? In that way, you don't see Israel only through the window of the bus, you get to know the Israelis and they get to know the Americans much better!
If you could say one thing to future participants, what would it be? It's a memory for life!
