Yad Vashem Reflection

Yad Vashem Reflection

by | Aug 10, 2018 | Summer 2018

By Justin Linden and Trevor Siegel, NFTY in Israel Participants, Bus 7 As we walked through the great stone doors of Yad Vashem a great sense of familiarity swept over us. It has been 4 weeks since we journeyed through the horrors of the holocaust in Europe yet the...
It’s Not Goodbye, It’s L’hitraot (see you later)

It’s Not Goodbye, It’s L’hitraot (see you later)

by | Jul 27, 2018 | Summer 2018

By Rabbi David Wilfond, Director of Education Now that the NFTY in Israel journey has ended, another journey is beginning. Your teens disembarked from the airplane very tired, but nevertheless very fulfilled. It is without a doubt that the NFTY in Israel summer is a...
Thoughts on Gadna

Thoughts on Gadna

by | Jul 27, 2018 | Summer 2018

By Meena Colbdorf, NFTY in Israel Participant, Bus 6 Last week in the Chavaya, Gadna, I spent 4 days learning what it meant to be part of the IDF. Every Israeli teenager has to join the IDF when they turn 18, and as a 16 year old I was given a small taste of their...
Make the Most of What’s Left

Make the Most of What’s Left

by | Jul 27, 2018 | Summer 2018

By Ian Donahue, NFTY in Israel Participant, Bus 6 So Israel’s almost done. I want to cry and be sad, but part of me doesn’t feel that way. When I think of home some piece of me, a piece I don’t want to admit, is happy. I love many things about NYC and I don’t feel...