Relationships
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Prepare with intention
This week has been nothing short of spectacular. Having Evelin and Saci engage in our new school year orientation has given them a unique perspective on how we conduct our professional development as ...
Power of Play
What amazing day! We had the opportunity to participate in Kim Adam’s workshop about the Power of Play. We really liked that she introduced practical ideas about how to support play ...
Creative Classrooms
Another amazing day has passed at JCC. The morning workshops (given by Mykenzie) focused on belonging, commitment, building communities and meaningful relationships. (B’rit Covenant)
We visited ...
Child Centered Education
Our first day at JCC was very interesting and inspiring. After a warm welcome from the JCC team, Lisa Murphy – the author of many important books – made an impressive workshop on Child Centered ...
A day in Washington DC
Washington DC
Today’s first program was to take one last look at the homes we were living in for this amazing past week. We said goodbye to our host’s parents and headed to Beth Tfiloh. At school we bit farewell ...
Shabbaton Divrei Torah
Aviva R and Abby O – Beth Tfiloh Students
Jews from all different backgrounds and religious practices came together on October 7th, and have remained united in the ...
Shabbat
On Friday we started our Shabbaton journey this year, too. This meant that we were able to connect to each other like never before due to the nature of Shabbat. We arrived just before sunset, therefore ...
Immersive Week Summary
Let me start with an announcement that we have just been honoured by The Maryland General Assembly for the Gesher Ambassador Program and its success. It is a success that started 9 years ago. ...
Challah baking and assembly
We woke up and had some breakfast with our host families then went to BT. After arriving we made challah together. Then we had some free time where we had some nap and ate some snacks. After that we ...
State House of Maryland, Naval Academy
We woke up at 6:50am and started getting ready with some deer outside the window.
When we got to the school, our hosts dropped us of at a different part of the school that we were slightly familiar ...
Israel Connection Day
We started the day early, it was raining heavily. We had a wonderful breakfast with our host family. We ate cereal and some hummus sandwiches.
At 8.10 we arrived at school, came to Beit Midrash ...
Jewish strength day and university (plus a baseball game)
The day started early with a nice London-like weather. As opposed to yesterday we had breakfast in the local Dunkin’ donuts. I grabbed a vanilla coffee, which was too sweet for my European taste buds. ...
Warm welcomes and getting to know Baltimore
We woke up bright and early, all our fatigue was gone, especially after getting a coffee at Dunkin’ with our amazing host, Adam. Also, American coffee is insane, having as much caffeine as a liter ...
Arriving in US
Our 12 hour-long flight to US began at the Budapest Airport, just like last year. We changed flights in Vienna where we had two and a half hours to explore the airport and grab something to eat.
After ...
Extreme Gratitude
Dear Lyndall and Mykenzie,
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Shabbat Shalom Dear Poland and Farewell
As the sun starts to set and Shabbat is in the air, I am given an opportunity to reflect on this amazing experience that Lyndall and I have had in Poland these last 10 days…. Wow! Has it ...
Now reporting from Warsaw
We arrived in Warsaw yesterday afternoon and were greeted by our wonderful Warsaw colleagues! All three of them came to meet us. We immediately started talking about plans for visiting the Lauder Morasha ...
Goodbye Kraków… Hello Warsaw.
Today was bittersweet as we had to say goodbye to our wonderful new colleagues in Kraków. We had just spent the last five days with these amazing educators learning about their journey and getting ...
