Category: Summer 2016

TJJer Spotlight: Dinah Medevoy In Eliat we had the water experience of a lifetime. We started off with water sports (banana boating and tubing) that threatened to throw us into the clearest blue water imaginable. We then swam for a bit, ate some pizza, and embarked on a boat ride to a coral reef. After…

TJJer Spotlight: Presley Klinger The 3:45am wake up call or leg ache from camel rinding did not hold back my enthusiasm for the day. We woke up early in the morning before the sunrise (if you ask me it was still nighttime) and started a hike up a mountain in the dark. By the time…

TJJer Spotlight: Molly Yarbrough Today we spent the majority of the day in the city of David. We started our day by walking through underground water tunnels. The space was really small but we had a lot of fun singing and walking through together. Later, we had time to go to lunch and shop in…

TJJer Spotlight: Rachel Krasner Hi I’m Rachel Krasner and I’m from Michigan. Today in the morning, we had a surprise stop at Ben and Jerry’s! Then, we went to Machon Maayan, which is a seminary in Givat Washington, and we got to explore a possible option for a gap year. While the girls learned about…

TJJer Spotlight: Phillip Scherbakov Hey my name is Phillip Scherbakov and I’m from Akron Ohio. Today me and the bus four squad left Shlomi and made our way towards Yad-Binyamin. On the way we stopped and explored an achrciogical site filled with ancient synagogue ruins. It was amazing to see the preserved ruins. Next I…

TJJer Spotlight: Emily Schultz Hi I’m Emily Schultz and I’m from Cleveland, Ohio. Today we went to the holy city Tzfat, this is by far my favorite place in Israel. We began by going to a cemetery where Ar”i z”l is buried. He was a scholar and a Kabbalistic rabbi during the time of the…