Sunday Aug 17
Shavua Tov! We have reached the end of the month and are closing the time period we have been studying. Our last topic is the 1978 Camp David Accords, when Prime Minister and \egyptian president Anwar Sadat made peace. Egypt recognized Israel (the first Arab country to do so!), Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to […]
Thursday Aug 14
We had a beautiful fifth-to-last-day here. Eidah daled left super early for the traditional Eidah daled Post-color war White water rafting trip 🙂 Meanwhile, for eevryobe else – weather was perfect, peulot were fun, and shiur was about July 4, 1976 – not the celebration of the bicentennial of America, of course …. but rather […]
Wed Aug 14 – Color War Day 2
Second Day of color was intense – our chanichim were in it to win it! We had a little drizzle of rain and off a few times throughout the day, but for the most part the weather cooperated and it was a great day. Shiur today was about the team names again – not what […]
Tuesday Aug 12 – Color War day 1
Kibbutz vs. Yishuv! Kima was bright and early this morning at 7 am. Somehow everyone was op and at ’em fairly quickly. Whereas usually each eidah has mifkad on their own before tefilah, on the Color War days the whole camp meets for mifkad next to the Indoor Beit Knesset. A little achdut (unity) before the […]
Monday Aug 11
Today was such a special day – our Yom Tochnit. All day was dedicated to a special theme related to the time period we are studying. Our Roshei Moshava created a Yom Tzahal for the chanichim! Since we have been learning some modern Jewish history, and we have so many camp stone alum who are […]
Sunday Aug 10
Sha-Sha-Shavua Tov! (Ask your kids to sing/cheer that for you, if you can’t hear it in your head as you read it 🙂 We had our traditional Sunday morning “late kima” at 8:00 am this morning after a late night with each eidah’s post-havdalah activities last night. Today we learned about the Yom Kippur war […]
Thurs Aug 7
We all had an extra half hour of sleep since the two nights before had been outside on the ground – or in a hammock 🙂 We woke up at 8:00 and felt well-rested! Shiur today tackled the concept of unity. Think about Israeli society and what Previous President Reuven Rivlin called The Four Tribes: […]
Wed Aug 6
We woke up at the Chutz site, davened Shacharit, had some breakfast and then had shiur. Today we “met olim” from different countires: Rav Sharon Shalom who walked from a small village in Ethiopia all the way to Sudan over two months! From Sudan a plane flew them to Israel! We heard from “Natan Sharansky” […]
Tues Aug 5 – Chutz Day 2
The pictures say it all – it has been the most gorgeous perfect weather at our Chutz this year, and so fun and relaxing to hang out cooking around the fire for hours. The campers really enjoy getting to know nature, while playing and talking with others of all ages. The Melechet Yad tent was […]
Monday Aug 4 – Chutz Day 1
Today all of our chanichim, hadracha and tzevet left for the Machane Chutz! We have officially “set up camp” a 15 min walk from camp -and our director Yakov Flesichmann and some of our security team moved out there as well! When each eidah was packed and ready, they walked over to the chutz site […]