Friday July 6
“Boker Tov Sugar Grooove!!” And what a beautiful morning it was 🙂 Gorgeous blue skies and perfect temperature with no humidity. We celebrated over breakfast, and everyone was so excited to enjoy being outdoors today!! And here is the hike-breakdown: Eidah Aleph: the berry hike! Yum! Eidah Vav: a trail we call “the Chutz Loop” […]
Thursday July 5
Our day started with a shiur about our relationship with non-Jews who live in Eretz Yisrael. The chanichim studied sources from psukim that speak about idol worshippers to the more modern sources that speak about the type of monotheistic non-Jew that lives in our country today. Once the chanichim had gone through what seeemed to […]
Wed July 4
The good news is: the chutz was so fun!! The bad news is: we got rained out today at 1:45 pm camp time 🙁 We all had to come back to camp, because the hot and humid weather turned into rain. It was a great chutz, although it got cut short. Enjoy the pictures: ) […]
Tuesday July 3
We’re off to the CHUTZ!! We all knew it had to be today 😉 After shiur, they called everyone to Aruchat Eser (morning snack) and “broke it out” by saying that the Jews in the pre-state were having trouble balancing the agricultural work and responsibilities that went along with farming and planting with their personal […]
Monday July 2
We ALL had a fun, busy day!! Eidot Aleph-Daled had shiur about socialism and the way Torah looks at property and our ownership of property and land. We looked at the mitzvah of bentching (where the context is a mitzvah to remember that G-d gives us success on our land with rain and we cannot […]
Sunday July 1 / 17 Tamuz
Today was our fast day commemorating the breaking through of the walls around Jerusalem, along with 4 other tragedies from history – including Moshe smashing the Luchot after seeing the golden calf. The chanichim had a later-than-usual wake up and tefillat shacharit with some slichot. The slichot were chosen very carefully and explained before their […]
Friday June 29
Hike Day! Eidah Daled got a head start…leaving at 2:00 a.m. for their “midnight hike” (long-standing tradition here at camp, and a real rite of passage for eidah daled). They davened at sunrise and ate something…and then back to bed! When they woke up in the early afternoon, they ate lunch and then had small […]
Thursday June 28
Thursday already?? This week fleeeewww…. The whole camp had shiur this morning about the question: do we care what other nations/people think about us and Israel? Starting with the Balfour Declaration, they talked about what everyone else’s role might be in OUR destiny and plans for Eretz Yisrael. So thought-provoking and, of course, relevant to […]
Wednesday June 27
Rain, rain go away; come again another day…preferably, after camp is over!! If you’ve been following the weather pattern in Sugar Grove, PA you know that it was a wash-out today! The good news: Kima (wake-up) was a half hour later 🙂 The rainy day schedule that we have ready each day on the back […]
Tues June 26
Everyone enjoyed a nice crisp night at the lina – warm from sleeping bags and the campfire. Perfect 🙂 By the way, correction from yesterday: Kaytana DID sleep out at the lina last night!! yay kaytana!! So, if your child never slept out in the Great Outdoors – they have now. Each eidah had yummy […]