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...
My Experience

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...
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...
Welcome to the Desert

Welcome to the Desert

By; Talia Levin This past week we all slept in the desert together for three nights. What did this look like? How did we manage this? To start, none of us knew what we were getting ourselves into. The day started with a hike up a mountain to look at the neighboring...
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...