Nov 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Hanukkah is coming! I am very excited for Hanukkah, and this week was full of activities and games for the upcoming holiday. At Kol Rinah Religious School, we played a trivia game about Hanukkah and answered challenging questions together. We also danced to a Hanukkah...
Nov 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
This week we had the National Shinshinim Conference! Both Lir and I flew to NYC to meet with all of our friends that we hadn’t seen in 3 months! We had an amazing tour in NYC, and we saw Times Square, Empire State Building, 9/11 Memorial, and many more fascinating...
Nov 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
This last week, the week of Thanksgiving, was so busy! It started with a Shinshinim convention of four days in which I saw some of my Shinshinim friends that are volunteering with the Jewish communities in different places around North America. It was so much fun! We...
Nov 19, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Last week I went to NFTY Chavora event with the kids from United Hebrew. It was in Kansas City so it was a long bus drive – but a lot of fun! It was really nice to meet new people from different places and to go through the activities we had; we talked about Israel,...
Nov 19, 2018 | Miscellaneous
This week was full of adventures! I Joined NFTY of Shaare Emeth to the Fall Convention and we had lots of fun! I met my fellow shinshinim from Denver and it was very exciting! I also met Liron, the Israeli supervisor from JAFI! We had breakfast with Lir and we talked...
Nov 8, 2018 | Miscellaneous
This week was very meaningful and busy for me. On Sunday, I was at the vigil for the Pittsburg attack victims together with Lir, my fellow Shinshinit, and we stood together with the rest of our amazing community that came to share love and solidarity. In the following...
Nov 8, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Last week a lot of things happened. Things that for me, an 18 year old girl, who came to the USA two months ago, were a surprise. Last Saturday there was a mass shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. An unthinkable killing – a man murdered 11 Jewish people only because...
Nov 8, 2018 | Miscellaneous
by Rachel Thimangu “Because we can speak, we can lead. And from this small thing, we can make a big difference.” The words of Kutz, a 14-year-old Arab girl at the Hand-In-Hand School for Jewish, Arab and Christian Children in Jerusalem, resonate as we ride to the...
Nov 5, 2018 | Miscellaneous
by Rachel Thimangu Sunday was a day of highs and lows. We reached the heights of Masada and desert dunes, and broke the surface of the Dead Sea, the lowest place on the surface of the Earth. A few hearty souls — Michael, Alan, Aaron, Lizzie, Vickie and Brett — climbed...
Nov 4, 2018 | Miscellaneous
by Rachel Thimangu Shabbat morning in Jerusalem, the heart of the Jewish people, brought to mind an old joke: Strand a Jew on a desert island and he’ll build two synagogues – one in which to pray, and the other to say he won’t set foot in. This is a land of deep...
