Tuesday July 30
If we thought yesterday, with Yoshiyahu’s finding of the Torah, was big headline-news…today was literally history-making. We have skipped ahead and are now watching the Churban Bayit Rishon – our first Temple destroyed, and that means exile for our people. In our camp life what that practically means is: 1) We talked about loss and […]
Monday July 29
Today was an exciting day at Machane with the big teshuva movement going on! You didn’t hear? King Yoshiyahu found a Sefer Torah as they were cleaning up the Beit haMikdash. We haven’t seen one of those in a while!! We learned all about it in shiur (and the king’s role in an appropriate response, […]
Sunday July 28
Shavua Tov! We had such a perfect first Shabbat – from Kabbalat Shabbat through a beautiful slow shira at Seudat Shlishit, everyone enjoyed the time together. One special perk of having such a large tzevet is that our camper: staff ratio is almost 1.5 : 1 which means that we have a very unique opportunity […]
Friday July 26 -hikes!!
Our Fridays are fun! #fridayfun And they start with quite the breakfast party, as we make our sandwiches with some traditional “zmirot” about peanut butter and Jelly. No joke! (Even though we are nut-free here!!) Ask your children when they come home to run through the sandwich-making songs from Friday. After that, shiur is a […]
Thursday July 25
Big news here from Sugar Grove, PA! The Jewish nation has split – Rechav’am has lost 10 tribes to Yerav’am!! Shlomo’s son has lost part of his kingdom 🙁 All because Rechav’am listened to the wrong advisors when it came to some grumblings about taxes. (This goes back to a promise Hashem made Shlomo that […]
Wednesday July 24
We had a great first day here in Machane Stone, with an exciting “Boker Tov Sugar Grove” over the ram-kol, to kick it off! Every Eidah has their own mifkad before tefillah, with some stretches, a message from their Roshei Eidah and the singing of the Bnei Akiva anthem and haTikvah. Tefillah here is in […]
Tuesday July 23 – Opening Tochnit!!
Welcome to Moshevet Mamlechet Kohanim, session 2 for Camp Stone Summer 2019/5779! You will find a daily report here (usually posted late at night) for Kaytana, Alef – Daled and Machal. Our 465 chanichim and chanichot arrived on 9 buses today – from 35 cities (and a few in some cars)!! They were greeted by […]
Monday July 15
No one can believe it is over 🙁 That went by so fast! The chanichim/ot enjoyed a morning of camp peulot and then spent the afternoon packing. Shiur today was a review game of the month and goodbyes with their shiur teachers, all staff from our Beit Midrash or staff from other anafim in camp […]
Sunday July 14
Shavua Tov! Our last Shabbat together was perfect in every way – full of ruach, dancing, singing, tefillah, fun and games and learning. It has been a very exciting and memorable last “real day” here at machane. The big news from here is that Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin have worked out a plan for […]
Thurs. July 11
We needed to sleep in!! And some of us did…but not Eidah Daled – they were out of Machane by 5:00 a.m. To celebrate their success as leaders in Color War, they went on the much-anticipated “eidah daled white water rafting trip” and were so excited for it!! They love to be given special experiences […]