Interest: Israel
Shaked Blog – January 13, 2020
Shalom everyone! I had really a busy week last week. During the four days after I came back to town I stayed with the Kerner family, I really enjoyed my stay with them! After that, I came back to my host family, the Silver family, it was good to be back home. That Sunday I…
Guy Blog – January 6, 2020
Hello everyone! I’d like to share with you all about my wonderful vacation I had with my family from Israel! First of all, my family arrived is STL 3 weeks ago and it was one of the moments I’ll never forget from this year! I was so happy and excited to see them after 4…
Shaked Blog- January 3, 2020
Hi everyone, I hope you’re winter break was as good as mine! I had the perfect two weeks!! On Friday, the week my mom arrived, we went to the Arch, it was a beautiful day and we really enjoyed there to walk around and to be in the Arch! In the evening I had Dvar…
Travel grants to Israel offered for teens, young adults
A gift from the St. Louis community will provide grants to teens and young adults to help them experience Israel. The Israel Travel Grants are $1,500 for a year-long program, $1,000 for a semester-long program, and $750 for a short-term program Open to St. Louis teens who have completed ninth grade and young adults up to…
Guy Blog – December 20, 2019
Shalom everyone! I’d like to share with you all about my week! On Sunday morning I had BA Sunday school which was so much fun: We had a latke day! We made a lot of latkes together and it was delicious! In addition, I shared with the children how we celebrate Hanukkah in Israel, and…
Shaked Blog – December 20, 2019
Shalom! This week is very special for me, because on Wednesday my mom arrived to town! Last Friday I had meeting at the federation with Guy and we planned our program together for the ECC (we’ll talk about more) and then went to Shaare Emeth for my second time Challah baking with the ECC and…
Shaked Blog – December 13, 2019
Hi! This weekend that I had wasn’t as planned… I was really sick on Friday so it prevented me to go to the 678 event on Friday and Saturday morning. I wished I could, I’ve never been to the City museum and I wanted to spend time with the 6th- 8th graders. I heard they…
Guy Blog – December 13, 2019
Hello everyone! I’d like to share with you all about my week! On Sunday morning I had UH Sunday school which was so much fun! I did a program about Hebrew words related to Hanukkah ! The kids learned the main words about Hanukkah in Hebrew by a memory game! It was a competition between…
Guy Blog – December 6, 2019
Shalom everyone! On Sunday evening I came back from a vacation in Chicago with my host family! I had such a good time. We traveled a lot, ate good food and had sooo much fun!! On Monday I had my 19th birthday!!! It was a PERFECT day! In the morning I went for breakfast with…
Shaked Blog – December 6, 2019
Shalom everyone! I hope everyone’s Thanksgiving went well! I had a good time this week and enjoyed the Thanksgiving break I had. On Wednesday I had a meetings day with Cynthia and Guy and we worked on an activity Guy and I are doing on Hanukkah for all the ECCs at our temples! Then I…