Category: Summer 2012

Today was Tisha B’av, the fast of the 9th of Av. We fast today in remembrance and mourning of the destruction of the First and Second Temples.   We had a very chilled nd easy day. We started off the day reading Kinot, which are special paragraphs we read on Tisha B’av morning talking about the…

Our last shabbos was truly amazing! We spent Friday night davening at the Kotel, Western Wall and then ate a delicioys meal in the Cardo of the Old City.   Today we had a relaxing shabbos in our hotel and walked to Mirkaz Harav to learn more about one of the most prominent Yeshivot in…

Today was an incredible day! We started off the day visiting Har Herzl, the Israeli military cemetery. We learned the incredible stories about all the fallen heroes from Israels war. After that we went to our Matriach Rachels grave. You receive tremendous merit by visiting her tomb and praying. We ended off our day on a high note…

This morning we woke up on the right side of the bed and decided to help people out. We volunteered our morning to work in a soup kitchen cutting up vegetables that were then going to be used to make a delicious lunch for the poor and needy. Later in the day, after so rest and relaxation at the…

This morning we went back in history to one of the saddest times in Jewish history. We took a tour Yad V’shem, the Holocaust Museum in Israel. Our tour started in 1933 with Hitlers rise to power and went all the way to 1945 and the liberations of the camp. Next we went to the Herzl Museum learning all…

Today was an extremely amazing and educational day. We spent the morning picking onions for an organization called Leket. Leket gets volunteers to pick vegetables for the poor. We picked 2 tons of onions which will feed over 800 families this week.   Next we went to Invitation for Silence, the Deaf museum. For an…

Today was Tel-Aviv day! We spent the day learning about how Israel became a country in 1948.   We visited Independence Hall the exact place where David Ben-Gurion read out loud for the first time the declaration of the new Jewish state. We then walked to the famous Carmel Shuk where we had some time…

Today we entered the world of King David. We went to the exact place where his palace was built. We then traveled through the Hizkiyahu Tunnel which was built during Hizkiyahus reign. This tunnel brought water into the city and took 100’s of man hours to make. We then walked into the Old City of…

Today was very chilled, but also very long. We drove all the way from Eilat to Jerusalem stopping at Masada on the way. At Masada we learned about King Herod and the Jews that fought the Romans on top of the mountain. Afterwards we finally arrived in Jerusalem, entering the final stage (its a long…

Today was beach day. We started off on the beach of Eilat doing water sports. Everyone was able to go banana boating, tubing, paddle boating and kayaking. We soaked up the sun while enjoying the fresh salt water of the Red Sea.   We then took a party boat into the middle of the Sea…