By Emma Goldstein By far, my favorite part of this entire trip was our stay in the desert. Upon arrival I was completely unaware of the effects a three day desert stay could have on me. The trip began with us setting up camp. We laid out our sleeping bags, and...

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...