Category: Summer 2012

Today the trip took a different turn. We visited Yad Vashem; the Holocaust museum. It wasn’t my first time there, nor will it be my last, but this time was definitely… separated from the last time. I recall the last time I was there in eighth grade it was a very sad building with cool…

Today was so much fun! We woke up, walked up Tel Azeka, and got to see the beautiful Valley of Ellah. Since this is the site where the David and Goliath Battle was, a few of the TJJers reinacted the story. Mallory was Goliath and Grace was King David. Mallory was very intimidating with her…

Hello! There is only one way to describe today: Indepdence day! At least this morning was for sure was independence day. We began our day by heading to Tel Aviv and going to Disingoff’s home-turned museum which was used on May 14, 1948 to declare Israel as a state/ country. There we watched a movie…

We’re finally together again! Once we had gone through our first complete count-off in over 48 hrs, we hit the road again! We picked up the majority of the bus from Tel Aviv and then made our way to the neighboring community called Cholon (where our medic, Menachem, is from). Cholon is probably most known…

SHABBOS KODESH!!! After a few intense weeks, we arrived at a much needed relaxing shabbos. We all dispersed to various locations, and some even decided to remain within the confines of NCSY and participate in the optional Shabbaton. Regardless of what fun or sleep was had over the two days, when we regrouped on Sunday…

Hi Everybody! We finally got to spend a lot of time in the old city of Jerusalem! We started the morning off with a tour of the city of David, where we watched an interesting movie about the city of David. After that we went on a walking cave tour, which was very fun but a…

Sunday Today we packed our bags and left Tzfat. It was a tearful farewell to our spiritually uplifting home for the past week, but it meant that we are just a few more days away from our entrance to Jerusalem. We started our trek down south, stopping first at the Jordan River. Here we saw…

I know its been a while since the last blog, but here’s to a serious catch up! Weds July 11 We started off our day by going to a Kibbutz called Misgav Am. Misgav Am is located at the northern most part of Israel and is boarded by both Syria and Lebanon. We were given…

Shalom Ya’ll We started off by waking up early at 5:30 in the morning, we then went Zavitan Elyon for a 5 mile hike and halfway through we had a fun time swimming in a waterhole which was very beautiful. Once we were done with that grueling long hike we went to (Katzrin) mall to have lunch. Unfortunately…

ELLO! After a long, meaningful fast yesterday, we decided that today should be totally fun filled, which it was! We started the morning with the 2nd part of our prayer sessions that we started yesterday. Then we loaded the bus and headed to the Sea of Galilee where we were divided into four groups. Each…