Written by Naomi LeVine I grew up on the trajectory to be a Jewish leader. Every typical Jewish experience, I received. I expected to continue in this path, get further involved in the Jewish youth education world. And it was seemingly expected of me. Right before my third summer on staff at camp, college exposed […]
Written by Megan Brumer When I first decided to attend this program, I didn't know what to expect. I definitely didn't expect to meet 20 other amazing people who share the same love of Judaism, camp and Israel that I do. Arriving at Nachshon in January, I had already been in Israel for the fall […]
Written by Rose Levenson Over the last two months, to say a lot has happened would be a gross understatement of reality. As a Nachshon Fellow, I have made my own sushi, spent an afternoon at Google headquarters here in Israel, eaten cholent for the first time, discussed texts both old and new, met leading […]
Written by Benjy Forester When I applied for the Nachshon Project, one of the things I looked forward to most was the chance to spend my time in Israel with likeminded people. Camp people understand camp people, and I knew that having the chance to learn and grow with other camp people would put me […]
Written by Aaron Spiro I can't believe that my semester in Israel as part of the Nachshon project is almost halfway done. It feels like just yesterday when I got on a flight to Israel, not really sure of what I was going to be doing. While there have been a lot of ups and […]
Written by Jesse Nagelberg There are times when I would like the world to be black and white. Being asked questions is one of those times. Things would be so much easier if every question had a single and simple answer. But that is not how questions work. Each question can have many answers, and […]
Written by Rachel Glazer This semester, I have stepped beyond the boundary of the wide-open fields we roam in the Reform movement and instead have entered the rocky valley of pluralism, tripping over Jerusalem stone along the way. This odyssey and the trials that come with it are not unwelcome. The Nachshon Project has brought […]
Written by Preston Neimeiser When I left Israel in December of 2010, I left in tears. I made a promise to myself, sitting on the floor of Ben Gurion airport surrounded by four months' worth of baggage, that I would return to this place I had begun to think of as a second home. In […]
Written by Tamar Katz No speaker's thoughts and ideas have resonated with me the way Matti Friedman's did. Originally from Canada, Friedman made aliyah in 2005 and was a reporter for the Associated Press between 2006 and 2011. Following Operation Protective Edge this past summer, he published an essay that discussed the media's bias against […]
Written by Andrew Freeman Before Avraham Infeld came to speak, Rabbis Josh Cohen and Todd Zeff, seemed to be incredibly star-struck by his presence. It did not take very long to figure out why. From the first words he spoke, there was little doubt that he was going to be a life-changing orator. He talked […]
