Lo and behold!
Lauder School, Budapest Hungary
Fanni and I taught two 9th grade physical science classes in one class period in the morning and two 10th grade chemistry classes in the afternoon.
The freshman students ...
Could my feelings get any worse?
The day started off with a delicious breakfast at the Qubus Hotel in Krakow. We then boarded our tour bus and headed for Warsaw with en route stops at the Holocaust Memorial in Kielce, the Majdanek ...
Hope for the future
Morning in Lodz
Prior to WW2 one-third of the population of Lodz, Poland was Jewish. There has not been a Jewish community there for 70 years. Our group was blessed to witness the tiny spark that ...
Honoring ones Polish heritage
We finally got to see the Golden Autumn after days of grey. Our group was amazed by the panoramic bus tour of Warsaw. We caught glimpses of the Opera House, the famous Hotel Bristol where contemporary ...
Very Polish-Ashkenaz
The overcast day began for us at 9 AM with Shabbat Davening. The only shul left standing in Warsaw is called the Nozyk Synagogue. The only reason why it remains and wasn’t destroyed by the ...
Don’t be judged
Greetings from Warsaw,
We all met at 2 pm at the Jewish Institute in downtown Warsaw. It was one of the few Jewish buildings that survived World War II. There we had an interesting, open and ...
Optimism or Realism
Tonight we had the privilege of dining at the Galil kosher restaurant and meeting with Dr. Sebastian Rejak, the special Envoy to the Jewish Diaspora, Polish Ministry of Affairs. His topic was Poland ...
Tears, hugs and laughs witnessed by the Budapest stars
After a lovely and musical luncheon at the Talmud Torah Federation Center, adjacent to the magnificent Dohany St. Synagogue, our Tour guide extraordinaire Agi took us on a stroll of the Budapest streets.
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“Heimish” in so many ways
Our Shabbat in Budapest was one we’ll not soon forget. We arrived at the Keren Or Chabad Center and (some of us) were delighted to discover it was for Israelis and the entire service was conducted ...
He isn’t a former Neo Nazi, he is/was a Nazi…
We started the day with another early start and breakfast. We were honored to have as a guest speaker, the American Ambassador Charge d’Affairs, Andre Goodfriend. He spoke to us about the ...
A complicated country with various tensions
Today’s presentations by Charge d’affaires Goodfriend of the United States Embassy and later by Israel Ambassador to Hungary Ilan Mor were truly outstanding. They both provided a detailed ...
They had us all laughing to the point of crying.
After we left the meeting with Szegedi we boarded the bus again and headed to our last stop of the day. We went to see the Frankel Synagogue. The interesting thing about this shul, is that in the ...
SOHA TOBBE! NEVER AGAIN!
After leaving the Madi Synagogue and cemetery, we had about a 200 km drive back to Budapest and due to the lateness of the day, we had to forego the planned visit to the Tokaji winery and the Miskolc ...
Incredible and life transformative experience
Woke up this morning in Munkacz, Ukraine. My room at the Star Hotel is beautiful. The hotel itself is beautiful and the street it is on is beautiful.
It is now 7:15 am. The plan is to meet in the ...
It is our blessing and our revenge
After yesterday’s happy sad stressful very long day, and the post-wedding vodka celebration in Sylvia and David’s presidential suite last night, I found it very difficult to fall asleep. ...
Such powerful personal moments
We stayed in a charming hotel just down the street from the home of Elie Weisel. We had a tour guide who described the home, and what was original furnishings…One really felt what prewar life was ...
Finding the past
Boker tov! We`re on our way to Debrecen, eastward, ultimately to the Carpathian mountains. The bus ride was with anticipation and tefilah that the experience for everybody would be fulfilling. The ...
