Chaluztim Ba’aretz – Bus 2

By Tierney Saltzman, Bus 16 Eat snacks Every day is an extremely busy day for us; getting hungry is just part of the experience, and our three meals a day are usually not enough to tide us over. Snacks are readily available at almost every gas station stop and shuk....

By Corey O'Brien and Gerrit Ilai On Sunday, July 18, we visited a Druze community, a small religious group in the north of Israel. They are an Abrahamic monotheistic religion who consider Shuaib as an ancestor of the Druze and revere him as their spiritual founder and...

By Isaac Fleischer I can’t believe we made it out of the desert! What I expected to be three long and hard days turned out to be three long, hard, but also very eye-opening days. With a wake up at 4:00 in the morning, we began our journey to hike up Masada, one of...

By Miyah Lebofsky During the first week of our trip, we traveled to Jerusalem. It was so picture-perfect that members of our group kept commenting on how everything looked almost fake, like the rocks and signs had been carved and painted to look the way they did...

Our week began as we were split into three, repairing the world, IDF, and… sea to sea. Some of us went to go take a long hike, they did a lot of walking and spent some time on a…bike. Some of us went to train as a new recruit, despite it being difficult it sure was a…...

By Sara Muderick and Emma Ziff Right off the boat, there was a bumpy ride from Kunkletown to JFK airport. Alas, we made it! Emma was a CIT this summer at URJ Camp Harlam. Sara, however, was partying it up in California with her family. After two different journeys...

By Rabbi Loren Sykes, Director of Israel Immersives All Hebrew verbs, almost every Hebrew word, in fact, is made up of a three-letter root. Links between different words are revealed through shared three-letter roots. For example, words sharing the three-letter root...

As young Jews, we’re so lucky to be in a place where we can learn about the Israel-Palestine conflict and relate to each other about our shared Jewish experiences. Seeing Israel for these past few days in a light contrary to what the media portrays is incredibly...

By Samantha Zelling Our trip to the Negev was unlike any experience I have had in my entire life. The calm serenity of the ginormous hills of rocks and the swaying ever-present wind changed my entire perspective on living, managing my time away from technology, and...

By Zoe Hamilton My first few days in Israel were unreal. My journey started in Newark Airport where I reunited with my Jewish friends and met many more that I’ve stuck with since. When we arrived, I got to experience my first ever Shabbat in Israel. The strong sense...