Category: Miscellaneous

Now more than ever, we need to remember why we give

Sima and Michael Oberlander and one of their daughters and her friend volunteered picking food for Leket Israel in a field in Rishon LeTzion. Leket is the leading food rescue organization in Israel, provides food to 200 organizations that feed 175,000 needy Israelis...

Shaked Blog – March 2, 2020

Shalom everyone, Here is how my last week for my first 6 months here has been: I also had a long weekend, which I took pretty chill. On Friday I had a meeting with Cynthia and Guy at the Federation and this is pretty much what I did that day. On Saturday I went for a...

Shaked Blog – February 12, 2020

Hi everyone, My past weekend was pretty chill. On Friday I met Guy at the federation and we worked on our presentation for this Friday, about my Kibbutz and his Moshav.  After that we met Cynthia for lunch.  After the lunch I went to Shaare Emeth to organize stuff for...

Guy Blog – February 19, 2020

Hello everyone! I’d like to share with you all about my week. On Sunday I had Sunday school at both of my congregation – UH & BA. At BA I had a great activity about Israeli slang, the kids really liked it, they learned some new words and made some art. At UH...

Guy Blog – February 12, 2020

Hello everyone! I’d like to share with you all about my week. On Sunday morning I had Sunday school at UH. It was really fun. I did a program about colors in Hebrew by a nice story and a nice game, the kids really liked it. In addition to that we had a falafel program...

Shaked Blog – February 3, 2020

Hi everyone, Another week here flew by! On Friday I had a meeting at the federation with Guy and Cynthia and from there we went together to ice skating at Kiener plaza park. It was so much fun! It’s been a while since I’ve done the last time (4 years) and I really...

Guy Blog – February 3, 2020

Hello everyone! I’d like to share with you all about my week. On Sunday morning I had Sunday school at UH. We had so much fun with the ‘Hebrew Race’ program I made. We were talking about how to write Hebrew, who re-created the Hebrew language, how we use it and more....

Guy Blog – January 27, 2020

Hello everyone! I’d like to share with you all about my week. So last week I went with NFTY UH youth group to spend the weekend in Denver, Colorado in a NFTY convention. It was the best time ever. I met a lot of new friends, spent time with old friends, learned more...

Shaked Blog – January 27, 2020

Hi everyone, I had a blast this weekend! On Friday we flew to Denver, to a NFTY convention, winter chavura, which I anticipated to so much! I couldn’t wait to see again everyone and my Shinshinim friends from Denver! It felt like a reunion with everyone. So Friday was...

Shaked Blog – January 20, 2020

Hi everyone, What a fun week I had and about to have! This Sunday school at Shaare Emeth I did an activity about my kibbutz, the same activity that I needed to prepare to one of the steps of getting in the Shinshim program and it was an amazing closure for me! The...