Friday June 28
The Hike Day began very early here at Machane Stone – with Eidah Daled being woken up in the middle of the night for the traditional “midnight hike” (more accurately, the 4:00 am hike) They enjoyed a beautiful hike through sunrise and then had a meaninfgul tefillah. They were able to return “home” and sleep […]
Thursday June 27
Our day started with a shiur presenting the decision Medinat Yisrael had to make about when to commemorate the 6 million who were killed in the Holocaust. The chanichim/ot leaned about the idea the Knesset put forth, – the 27th of Nissan because it was the date of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the day […]
Wednesday June 26
The Village is up and running peulot all day!! Let me explain: each summer we have a very special corner of camp that hosts activites related to such arts as blacksmithing, glassblowing, wood working and baking in a brick oven. This session the village is called Talpiot and represents the neighborhood in Jerusalem which hosts […]
Tues. June 25
Today’s shiur at the beginning of the day dealt with the basic halachot of shmittah (the “every seventhyear” in Israel when we don’t farm in order to show that the land belongs to Hashem. The chanichim/ot had the experience of dealing with food from a shmittah year: at lunch, everyone had to figure out what […]
Monday June 24
Although everyone was a little tired today, after the late night fun of a lina (with a bonfire, singing and hanging out together), we maximized the day! We learned about what it means to be satisfied with a little, histapkut, since many of the immigrants coming into Israel lived with very little in terms of […]
Sunday June 23
Today all of the chanichim in eidot Aleph – Daled learned about Kibbutz Galuyot, the promised Ingathering of the Exiles. We asked questions like what are we davening for in the 11th bracha of shemonah esrei every day? And should people forget their past and do things like Hebraicize their last name? And what parts […]
Shabbat June 22
We had an amazing, inspiring and memorable Shabbat at Camp – first of all, the weather was perfect. Sunny and high 70’s … The sun was out the whole Shabbat, and we were so grateful!! The singing, dancing and davening as well as the time spent together learning, talking and playing all really helped us […]
Thursday June 20
We had a late start today due to some heavy early-morning rains. Everyone had some extra sleep and time in the bunk before Shacharit. But once we got started, we were busy, busy, busy all day! Each bunk had time to work on their presentation for bunk night, where they will present and explain their […]
Wed June 19
We had a busy, productive and fun first “real day” today! The chanichim met their shiur teacher and had their first shiur – today they learned about Tefillah L’shlom haMedinah and talked about all the things we wish for Medinat Yisrael in that prayer. Each shiur group is approx. 6 campers, so those 40 minutes […]
Opening Tochnit!!
The counting down is over! Your children were so excited to get off those buses and find their counselors. Moshevet haMedina has begun! We will be learning about, and then experiencing, the period in Jewish history between 1948-1979. Our Roshei Moshava, Zoe and Aryeh, greeted the campers from atop The Kastel, a fort that Haganah […]