When Shepherd Singer left Squirrel Hill and landed in Israel several decades ago, he “fell in love at first sight,” the 59-year-old IDF vet told the Chronicle while in Pittsburgh visiting his mother, Susan Singer, last week. Singer was a student at Taylor Allderdice when he learned of the Mollie Goodman Academic High School, based in Ashkelon and established by the Zionist Organization of America. The institution provided students with “the benefits of a high standard of secondary education, together with a knowledge of Judaism and exposure to the pioneering spirit of Israel, following a curriculum patterned after United States...