by ischear | Jul 11, 2018 | Summer 2018, Uncategorized
By Emily Kay and Paige Schultz, Sci-Tech Israel Participants, Bus 12 The Kibbutzim don’t get creative with food options They have sprite in a glass bottle! We drink water out of indestructible, paper-thin plastic cups. The showers are part of the floor! The...
by ischear | Jul 10, 2018 | Summer 2018, Uncategorized
By Sharon Mann, Liason in Galilee Medical Center’s Department of Foreign Affairs It was a pleasure to welcome North American teens from NFTY in Israel’s Mitzvah Corps to Galilee Medical Center where I am a liaison in the Foreign Affairs Department, for a...
by ischear | Jul 10, 2018 | Summer 2018, Uncategorized
By Abby Minch, NFTY in Israel Participant, Bus 2 One of the lines in the Torah reads “Tzedek tzedek tirdof” which means “Justice, justice you shall pursue.” In Judaism, we are taught to help everyone and everything in the world so that we can bring them back to peace....
by ischear | Jul 4, 2018 | Summer 2018, Uncategorized
By Rabbi David Wilfond, Director of Education It was only 3 days ago that we left the Poland, but it feels like a life time ago because we have done so much since arriving in Israel. On Monday, the buses drove to the hotel to check-in and slept after the overnight...
by ischear | Jun 29, 2018 | Summer 2018, Uncategorized
By Rabbi Rich Kirschen, Director of NFTY in Israel Right now, as Shabbat begins around the world your teens are either in their hotels nestled in the rolling hills of the Galilee, camping deep in the Negev desert or exploring the wonder of Golden Krakow in Poland. At...