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Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/sfl-phoward07jan07,0,3220739.column?coll=sfla-news-col
American Students in Israel Strive to Live as Israelis
(South Florida Sun-Sentinel) - Howard Goodman Maureen Melcer, 20, from Boca Raton, is spending her junior year of college at Hebrew University, and was helping set up for a convention of about 4,000 young Jewish travelers to Israel when news came of the Tel Aviv blasts. "It's incredibly hard to be so far away from home, with everything that's going on here," she said Monday, "but with most of us, we have each other, and we believe in Israel, and that's why we're here." A psychology major, Melcer started at Hebrew U. in August. Two days after she arrived, the cafeteria was blasted by a bomb hidden in a bag, killing 7 people including her adviser. "I'd been there five minutes before," she said.