by ischear | Jul 29, 2019 | Harlam in Israel Bus 8, Summer 2019
By Rebecca Wycoff, Bus 8 Participant For four days, a couple of my friends and I spent time on an IDF army base. The chavaya (or ‘choose your own experience’) that we chose was Gadna, an army experience designed for Israeli high schoolers. Gadna allows you get a sneak...
by ischear | Jul 26, 2019 | Crane Lake in Israel Bus 7, Eisner in Israel Bus 6, Harlam in Israel Bus 8, Jacobs & Greene in Israel Bus 5, L'Dor V'Dor National Bus 9, Summer 2019
By Rabbi Rich Kirschen, Director The beginning of the program may seem like years ago, when your teens made their way to Europe and then on to Israel to find themselves wandering in the desert, just like their ancestors. Yet now, only a few weeks later, the story of...
by ischear | Jul 25, 2019 | Harlam in Israel Bus 8, Summer 2019
By Samantha (Sami) Silk, Bus 8 Participant the path that we now follow is the Exodus our ancestors never chose flooding with pain they died not to swallow the past spills into the river and flows we cross a blue bridge over blue waters just like our...
by ischear | Jul 24, 2019 | Harlam in Israel Bus 8, Summer 2019
By Becca Wycoff, Bus 8 Participant After coming together as a big unit for 23 days, I see how much this group really means to me. I did not know a lot of kids here because there are 2 different sessions at camp. We may not have met yet, but we all already had one...
by ischear | Jul 23, 2019 | Harlam in Israel Bus 8, Summer 2019
By Jared Klein, Bus 8 I do not consider myself a very religious person. Sure, I go to synagogue for the high holidays and live by Jewish morals, but spirituality was never at the center of my Judaism. All of this changed when I visited the Kotel with NFTY in Israel...
