Written by Leah Beck On January 18th, the Nachshon Project went out into Tel Aviv and I finally got to see something in Israel. The day was based around Tel Aviv's history and we spent a lot of time in the city discussing how we felt about it being the first Hebrew city, even […]
Written by Megan Brumer On Saturday night after Havdallah, we had a drum circle on the beach. It started with us going down this path with drums on our shoulders in the dark. Once we arrived to the beach, those of us who were there started playing basic beats. We continued with everyone playing […]
Written by Rose Levenson On Saturday night, all of the fellows gathered together for what seemed to be another seminar about something or other. The moment Rabbi Cohen started to differentiate between imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, ears perked up. What really is the difference between these terms and how does that apply to […]
Written by Jesse Nagelberg A few weeks before we arrived in Israel, each Nachshon fellow received a copy of the book Start Up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer in the mail. We each read the books on our own and during our first Shabbat together, came together to have the first session […]
Written by Jake Sandler Mission statements were the topic of discussion on Saturday morning at Shefayim. I know that most camps have a mission statement, and have on a number of occasions read through the mission of Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. I was a little bit surprised to find out that Ben and […]
Written by Dani Katowitz My favorite place to celebrate Shabbat has always been at camp. Similar to many other Jewish camps, at URJ Camp Harlam the entire community dresses in white and prays together. The Shabbat experience at camp is always magical. However, celebrating Shabbat in Israel is a close runner up. Our first […]
Written by Daniel Warshawsky Every time I have had the fortune of coming to stay in Israel, I have had the opportunity to expose myself to different forms of Judaism that I may not have been able to experience elsewhere. Our first shabbat on the Nachshon Project was no different. To begin our shabbat […]
Written by Tamar Katz Friday was our first session with our in-house educator, Jamie. To start off our conversation he posed the question, "What did the creation of the State of Israel mean to the Jewish people? What was life like before the state of Israel?" Jamie observed that while Israel continues to battle […]
Written by Heather Shore If someone walked into the community room at Kibbutz Shefayim around 8:30 in the morning on Friday, they'd probably think they'd just been plopped into some sort of bizarre playground. As he or she looked around, they'd see 21 college students energetically trying to figure out how to rebuild an […]
Written by Naomi Bennett 7:10am - January 15, 2014 - Jerusalem I woke up that morning in Jerusalem, non jet-lagged, comfortable and aware of my surroundings, having spent the last semester at Rothberg International School at Hebrew University. But today was different - the Nachshon Project was beginning here, in Israel! I left the […]
