Tag: SSG students Scheiber students
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 ...
Back home
Dear Friends,
Now, that we are close to Passover, let me share our special way to welcome Pesach in Scheiber Sandor Gimnázium (SSG) this year.
We had our Pesach Seder in SSG, together the entire middle ...
Shabbat in Baltimore
Our Friday started off quite bad because Amir couldn’t attend school as he was sick. Fortunately, he joined us on Shabbaton. I (Benedek) started my day off by writing the Dvar Torah with ...
Engaging with others
We started the day with davening. Afterwards, we visited classes like American Literature and American History, which were very interesting for us. Then the final preparations for the classes started. ...
What a week, day, year…
GESHER AMBASSADOR PROGRAM: Immersive Week Summary by Violetta Varga
I had been looking forward to this opportunity for such a long time when we were informed that we could start getting ready for the ...
Fascinating and enthusiastic
Wednesday morning was still quite hard for us because of jet lag, and waking up two hours earlier than we were supposed to, but it’s getting better every day. We had an amazing breakfast with ...
Jewish Life and Antisemitism
Tuesday was our first morning with our amazing hosts. I ate a traditional American breakfast with pancakes and maple syrup. Then my host drove me to school. While driving I could see the neighborhood ...
Making new friends
Our 16 hour-long flight to the US began at the Budapest Airport. We changed flights in Istanbul where we had two hours to explore that huge and amazing airport.
After our little tour at the airport, ...
Belonging to one nation – Jewish nation
I could not wait to see again my friends and non-biological family from the other side of the world. I had been waiting for this trip since the moment we said goodbye in March and while I was packing ...
A good balance in activities, forming the one community
I think my most important takeaways and values from the program every year are friends and the time we spend together with really good vibes, and I feel that I can always get closer to my Jewish identity. ...
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Scheiber students
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 ...
Back home
Dear Friends,
Now, that we are close to Passover, let me share our special way to welcome Pesach in Scheiber Sandor Gimnázium (SSG) this year.
We had our Pesach Seder in SSG, together the entire middle ...
Shabbat in Baltimore
Our Friday started off quite bad because Amir couldn’t attend school as he was sick. Fortunately, he joined us on Shabbaton. I (Benedek) started my day off by writing the Dvar Torah with ...
Engaging with others
We started the day with davening. Afterwards, we visited classes like American Literature and American History, which were very interesting for us. Then the final preparations for the classes started. ...
What a week, day, year…
GESHER AMBASSADOR PROGRAM: Immersive Week Summary by Violetta Varga
I had been looking forward to this opportunity for such a long time when we were informed that we could start getting ready for the ...
Fascinating and enthusiastic
Wednesday morning was still quite hard for us because of jet lag, and waking up two hours earlier than we were supposed to, but it’s getting better every day. We had an amazing breakfast with ...
Jewish Life and Antisemitism
Tuesday was our first morning with our amazing hosts. I ate a traditional American breakfast with pancakes and maple syrup. Then my host drove me to school. While driving I could see the neighborhood ...
Making new friends
Our 16 hour-long flight to the US began at the Budapest Airport. We changed flights in Istanbul where we had two hours to explore that huge and amazing airport.
After our little tour at the airport, ...
Belonging to one nation – Jewish nation
I could not wait to see again my friends and non-biological family from the other side of the world. I had been waiting for this trip since the moment we said goodbye in March and while I was packing ...
A good balance in activities, forming the one community
I think my most important takeaways and values from the program every year are friends and the time we spend together with really good vibes, and I feel that I can always get closer to my Jewish identity. ...