Kotel Tales

Kotel Tales

by | Jul 16, 2021 | Summer 2021

By Loren Sykes, Director of Israel Immersives I have visited the Kotel HaMa’aravi – The Western Wall – more often in the past two weeks than I have in the past four years. One day this week, groups of NFTY in Israel teens saw two very different faces of the kinds of...
A Mix of Familiar and New in a Distant Land

A Mix of Familiar and New in a Distant Land

by | Jul 16, 2021 | Summer 2021

By Eliana Goldwasser The first morning I woke up in Israel, it was loud. My roommates and I blinked awake to the sound of our counselors blasting music from a speaker in the hallway. I could hear them dancing around as I stumbled out of bed, bleary with jet lag.  When...