Music to our ears
After a long day of travel, we visited a wonderful Kosher Restaurant where we met our partner teachers. It was great to finally put faces to the many emails that we have shared. Over a wonderful traditional ...
Menschkeit as a Mirror
From the moment we stepped onto the campus of Lauder Javne this morning, I felt embraced by the warmth, investment, and openness of the faculty and administration. Families will often share with me ...
Similarities and differences
After a long journey from Las Vegas, we arrived to a warm welcome in Budapest. We had a chance to meet our partner colleagues over a lovely Kosher dinner. Of course it was wonderful to put a face to ...
Oh how green it is!
After a long trip, and a great night sleep, I woke up ready to meet the students at the Lauder School. I was able to tour the beautiful campus and see students engaged in a number of activities from ...
Half a World Apart – Still the Same
It’s day o
ne at the Lauder school in Budapest. We have traveled from our school – the Adelson Campus in Las Vegas, Nevada to Budapest, Hungary. The school is beautiful and inviting, from ...
American Democracy Motivates And Inspires Hungarian Jewish Students
Getting the chance by SOS International to join the Morim project and visit the USA, came with multiple goals for me. Firstly, as the program’s mission states, I wanted to get connected with ...
Across the ocean
I don’t know where to start this. I’m sad and happy and at the same time, I have gained something unforgettable and special for the rest of my life, but also as it started, it came to an end so ...
Other cultures
This trip was an unforgettable experience for me. It was a great opportunity to meet new and amazing people and meet another culture.
In my opinion, the organization for the programs after school or ...
Leaving one’s comfort zone
I’m feeling happy because the absence of them makes me sad.
There are some things in life that are so significant for you that you literally feel depressed after losing it. I think it is also true ...
Shabbat – a unique atmoshphere
I was so excited about this trip. The time went by so slow from April to October. Usually, nobody wants the summer break to end but this year I was waiting for the school to start because it meant my ...
Similarities and differences
For me this trip was a very big experience. At the beginning, the time difference was hard for me and I was tired a little bit during the day. The school was a very good experience for me, and it was ...
Jewish Community
If I have to describe our trip with one word, it would be: UNFORGETTABLE.
It was amazing to reunite with my friends from the other side of the world. Getting off the bus at BT for the first time, even ...
A Shabbat with a difference
This year we have spent the Shabbaton in Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School. Our host Rabbi Soskil did his best to make this Shabbaton unforgettable for both the kids and all the teachers participating ...
Strong together
I was sure that the Shabbaton was going to be amazing based on my experience from my first one with the BT kids. First we all went back to the school. The girls put their stuff down in the library and ...
Home Hospitality – the best!
To this day our seminars have become completed by those missing pieces which made them much better. BT students did not hesitate to ask and SSG kids were able to release stress.. this was the night ...
America!
This was our fourth day in BT, which is unbelievable, because time it feels like we have just arrived and we are part of this community for years at the same. Days are passing so fast that I can’t ...
Effort is needed
I’ll start off with the morning, the davening. I think the alternative davening is a good way even for those, who can’t or just don’t want to follow as closely, or just not feeling ...
Together as one
Now that we have been in the school for some days our kids have started to get rid of their anxiety and they are ready to work. Our classes are going better and better. Kids have been becoming more and more confident. It is wonderful to see that our kids are stepping out of their comfort zone. During the day some of us had the possibility to take part in the administration’s meeting, which was a fantastic experience again. The way Dr. Schorr was leading the meeting was simply fabulous. What was very meaningful to all of us at the meeting was that we learned about the same problems that we are facing in Hungary. Cyber-bullying is an issue everywhere. We agree that we could prevent our kids from being bullied by educating either them or their parents. The sentence of the meeting was: “We should not be afraid of our children.” ….. So after we finished our lessons we were taken to Jewish Community Centre so that we could make Chala for Sabbath… This was an unforgettable and uplifting experience which our children will surely never forget.
All part of the experience
The part of the trip that we were most excited about of course after seeing our friends again has come. We went to Washington D.C today. We traveled there with a yellow school bus which I think most ...
Friends become family
20 thousand steps. That is the number of steps we have walked together. We started our day with a bus drive to Washington DC. Our kids had been so excited, they could hardly wait for this day. We saw ...
