My Experience

By: Molly Cohen, Bus 10

This trip has truly been one of a kind. I am extremely grateful that I was able to travel around and to Israel with my camp friends and people I’ve known my entire life. Even though the desert brought its challenges at the end of the day it was really fun and an experience I will never forget. The trip has brought our unit closer than ever before. During Gadna (army training) we learned what it was like to be a soldier and got to experience some of the training they went through. During this fourth and final week we have Israelis with us for part of it and we will learn about what their lives are like. I am excited to see what this next week brings and am sad we are leaving this beautiful place and each other soon.

Matot

Matot

By: Rabbi Loren Sykes, Director of Israel Immersives When August approaches in Israel, the temperatures rise and what was a mostly green landscape turns varying shades of brown. We are entering the hottest part of the summer when it is often over 90 degrees during the...

Pinhas

Pinhas

By: Rabbi Loren Sykes Director of Israel Immersives This week’s Torah portion in Israel, Parshat Pinhas, is chock full of interesting issues ranging from the Jewish calendar to the extremism, from explanations about why the Levites do not get a land inheritance at all...

Balak

Balak

By: Rabbi Loren Sykes - Director of Israel Immersives Despite being a very small country, Israel is an endless set of natural wonders! There is beauty everywhere. While the immediate area around The Dead Sea is desolate, just a few minutes away, there are magnificent...

Hukkat

Hukkat

By: Rabbi Loren Sykes- Director of Israel Immersives The end of the Torah portion we read in Israel this week, Parashat Hukkat, includes a list of many of the places our ancestors visited while wandering in the desert. Almost without exception, the list tells us...

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