some recent updates!
7/28/12 -The names Michal and Channa will always be special to us as we gave two girls their Jewish names today. Their is a sadness creeping into the atmosphere among the Am-Echad children who have been to this camp before. They remember that tomorrow will bring the final Shabbat of the program and have already begun to tear up when talking about saying goodbye to the NCSY / JOLTers. 7/29/12 - We went to a ropes climbing course today after our final 5 kilometer hike in the Alps. Everyone is excited to make our final Shabbat…
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7/25-7/27
Monday July 25th : We broke Color War today! It was not only Blue vs White but a perfect chance for informal education as the Maccabees were pitted against Tzahal as wel learned about the Jewish past and present. After a day of divrei Torah, hilarious skits and sophisticated dance moves we went to bed early after a job well done. Tuesday July 26th: We began the day with a drive to Switzerland where we white water rafted for over 12 kilometers through the Swiss alps back into Austria. Upon returning we put on a program…
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Friday, July 22- Sunday July 24
Friday July 22 Rabbi Steve Burg, International Director of NCSY, arrived this morning to spend Shabbat with us. He addressed us before lunch discussing the holistic way to view sefer Bamidbar and what that means to us as leaders. Later in the day the JOLTers put together a showcase for the Machane about the city of Tzfas where after a hysterical play the campers got to 'tour' the mystical city complete with food, crafts, and L'chaim (seltzer water we promise) stations. We enjoyed a Shabbat dinner and oneg together and sang deep into the night.…
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Updates from the past week
Our sincerest apologies for the delay in posting. We have been without internet access in Europe for several days now. Please enjoy the following pictures and recaps from the past week. Sunday July 17th -- We were up at 5:00 AM on our travel day from Poland to Munich. The excitement was palpable as we left Poland to begin the next phase of our program, rebuilding the European Jewish world. After several flight delays we landed in Germany after nearly thirteen…
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Shabbat Email from Rabbi Zak- postponed due to lack of internet connection
Dear Jolt families and friends, We decided to finish our mourning today. In a week that has brought us from cemetery to ghetto, to mass grave, to concentration camp we experienced…
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Poland Day 3
July 13th, 2011 Together we cried. Though we all new what we would encounter at Majdonic there is no way to properly prepare for the psychological trauma of a preserved death camp. Teens ran their fingers over the scratch marks etched in the stone and wood walls of the gas chambers and sobbed openly by heap of human ash. All that is left of a massacre that left 18,000 Jews dead in a two day period of particular horror. “But we had each-other to cry on,” was the sentiment echoed repeatedly by the group…
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Poland Day 2
Phase two of NCSY JOLT officially began tonight. After spending our first incredible Shabbat in Staten Island shifting our perspective from that of thirty-eight individuals to a single group we arrived, on no sleep, in Poland. On Monday we toured modern Warsaw and the Jewish world that once was. Today we began to focus specifically on the Holocaust. We visited the Treblinka Death camp and the town of Tiktin where we learned Torah by the Old Synagogue and traced the final path that its’ residents took in August of 1941 that ended in a mass…
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Welcome to JOLT 2011/ Day 1 - Poland
Welcome! After spending an amazing shabbat in Staten Island getting to know eachother, Sunday afternoon we hopped on a plane to Poland where we just settled in for the night at our lovely hotel in Warsaw. Our action packed day started off the minute we left the airport. Our first stop was to one of the only Jewish cemeterays left in Poland where we saw many famous grave sites like the Netziv, Adam Czerniakow, and the memorial site of Janusz Korczak. The entire group divided the entire book of Tehillim and said their assigned perakim at a mass…
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Welcome to NCSY JOLT 2011!
Friday and Shabbos Information July 8-10 On Friday July 8 we will provide coach bus transportation at 1:00 PM from the NCSY office in Cedarhurst ( 555 Willow Ave Cedarhurst, NY) to Staten Island. For those who wish to provide their own transportation, the group will be meeting at the Young Israel of Staten Island at 2:00 PM. If you are planning on taking this bus please email Mollie Sharfman, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)/*
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