Monday June 19
Happy Summer!! One day left of our staff orientation week! Our 300+ tzevet and hadracha of Kaytana, Eidot alef-daled and Machal are working hard to get everything ready for the 500+ chanichim arriving tomorrow!! Moshevet Torah sheB’al Peh, covering the years 70-500, will be underway in 5, 4, 3… We take this opportunity to wish […]
Sunday, August 21
Our last Shabbat in Machane was a beauty! It was a spirited, inspiring, fun Shabbat with hours and hours of singing and dancing! By the fourth Shabbat, the chanichim know exactly what to do and when, and so they gave it their all. Shabbat had beautiful weather, so everyone had their fourth and last chavruta-time, […]
Thursday, August 18
Color war ended Wednesday night… and it was Chachamei Sefarad (team colors: pink and black) for the win this year! And boy did we need the extra sleep, as color war ended quite late! The morning was just a little shorter with two peulot, not three, which was fine for everyone 🙂 Eidah Daled actually […]
Wednesday, August 17 – Color War Day 2
Color War Day 2: The fun continued for another day here as Team Chachamei Sefarad and Team Chachamei Ashkenaz battled it out. We woke up and had camp-wide mifkad again. Each team gave one of the divrei torah (the biur tefilah, halacha yomit, and the sha’at shu’t) at their respective minyanim. Breakfast was run by […]
Tuesday, August 16 – Color War Day 1
Color War Day 1: The first full day of Color War got off to an energetic and spirited start! The day was full of creativity, effort, cheering, and fun. We woke up at 7:30 and got right to it! A camp-wide mifkad that, of course, everyone was on time for! Points are very powerful!! The […]
Monday Aug 15
Today we learned about the Italian diaspora, with some famous Torah giants, such as Rav Ovadia from Bartenura and some lesser famous like the first-ever known soferet – a Jewish female scribe, named Paula dei Mansi. She also wrote a work of halakhah and translated commentaries into Italian. But shiur was not the only time […]
Sunday Aug 14
Sha-sha-shavua Tov!! We had such a beautiful Shabbat Nachamu with so many special guests. We continued to enjoy the presence of Rav Moshe and Dr. Michal Lichtenstien, and, in addition, we welcomed two community leaders from Cleveland: Rabbi Avery Joel and his wife Aliza and Rabbi Binyamin Blau and his wife Faith. Rabbi Joel is […]
Thursday Aug 11
Home, sweet home! Each eidah returned to machane this morning, after another round of tefillah, cereal & milk and shiur at the Chutz site. It felt so good to be back and the best part was a long hot shower 🙂 Chanichim looked so clean at lunch!! We had a few peulot in the afternoon […]
Wednesday Aug 8 – CHUTZ DAY 2
Great Report about the full day we had at the Chutz! We could NOT have had better weather!!! It was perfect, and the chanichim – and all of their madrichim and tzevet –Â could NOT have enjoyed it more! Everyone woke up and started the day with a beautiful outdoor tefilah; plugah brought all of […]
Tuesday – CHUTZ day 1
This morning we learned about Ramba”n – famous Rabbi of Barcelona in the 13th century. At this point in Spain, the Christians had overthrown the Muslims, and in 1263, King James I of Aragon organized a public debate between Judaism and Christianity. The debate took place in the king’s palace in Barcelona in the presence […]