After a packed and exciting week, we spent Shabbat relaxing and catching up on sleep. First we had Shabbat morning service’s together followed by some rest time. Later had lunch and then had ruach🎵 together! After some more rest and hanging out with each other we met for mincha and Shabbat dinner. We concluded Shabbat Continue Reading »
We started our day with Shacharit at Tzfat. After, we took a tour and walked around the city. We were able to see a few monuments along with beautiful views. While walking, we learned about how the color blue is so prevalent in city because the color represents holiness and is used to show Tzfat’s Continue Reading »
This hot day started with a refreshing water hike. We had so much fun walking through and then hanging out in the water! Our day continued at DeKarina Chocolate factory where we watched a movie on its history, sampled some chocolate and even made our own 🍫. Then we went to Har Bental where we Continue Reading »
We started off the morning by doing Shacharit in a broken down shul from the time of the second temple. Then, we hiked in the Arbel, which was mostly a downhill hike with lots of climbing. After that, we bussed to the Kinneret where we ate schnitzel and swam with the fish! Later, we went Continue Reading »
We started our day by davening shacharit with the EPIC Israel Plus group and then enjoyed our first delicious breakfast at Agron, where we’re staying. After breakfast, we took the bus over to Sataf for a morning hike. We learned all about what was there and interesting facts that Talia, our tour guide, shared with Continue Reading »
Bruchim haba’im l’yisrael!! Today we had a very early (or very late!) wake up time of 2:30am to make it to the airport for our early morning flight. After a very restful 3 hour flight, we had made it to Israel! For most of us, this was our first time in the country and so Continue Reading »
Today might have been one of our most challenging yet meaningful days yet. We started our morning by davening shacharit before getting on the bus and heading to Auschwitz. While on the bus, we got to hear the story of Lindsey’s grandmother, who is a Holocaust survivor whose family were all victims from Auschwitz. After Continue Reading »
Today we had a restful and rejuvenating Shabbat. We started our day with breakfast and morning services, in which we discussed the parsha of the week and what we all think makes a good leader. We created skits to display what we thought were the most important traits for a leader to have and then Continue Reading »
We started off the morning by doing Shacharit with the Eastern Europe group. We then departed to go to Ein Kerem to go see two Churches, one church was John the Baptist Church and The Visitation Church. After this we stopped at Golda’s to cool off and get ice cream. We then headed to Tira Continue Reading »
Today started early at 4 am when we woke up after a night’s sleep at Kfar HaNokdim in the bedouin tents. We arrived at the top of Masada just in time to see the beautiful sunrise and do sunrise shacharit. Afterwards, we enjoyed floating in the dead sea – many of us for the first Continue Reading »
