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For the past three years, Yigal Ariha has served as the Israeli shaliah and Tanakh teacher at the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community High School in Baltimore, MD. Laura Shaw Frank, a doctoral student in Modern Jewish History at the University of Maryland, College Park, is a Jewish History and Judaic Studies teacher at Beth Tfiloh. Additionally, both Yigal and Laura serve as Israel Program Advisors at the school, advising students about gap-year programs. This article appears in issue 10 of Conversations, the journal of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals.