By Eva Wyner This week we had the opportunity to spend meaningful time with Professor Reimer, who plays an integral role in crafting the Nachshon curriculum and works intimately with fellows who are selected to participate in the graduate school fellowship. He began his lecture by tracing Jewish migration to America. Through an interactive discussion, […]
By Shayan Gilbert Burke On May 12, our cohort had the honor and privilege to hear from Dr. David Passig, a futurist, lecturer, and consultant who specializes in technological, social and educational futures. With our cohort, he focused on demographic and historical trends and futures related to the Jewish people in diaspora and within Israel. I […]
By Michael Stiefel Alperin We had the opportunity to hear from Rav Shaul Feldman who is the Executive Director of Bnei Akiva. He began by saying that he doesn’t like it when the flight attendants say, “Sit back and enjoy your flights,” and that’s not the way to go about life. He juxtaposed that by […]
By Allison Reich Exploring the narrow and winding alleyways on a warm Friday afternoon, I imagined Tzfat’s pious residents passing me on their way to greet Shabbat. I closed my eyes and thought about the Kabbalists reciting Kabbalat Shabbat for the first time after it was written. I, as well as many of my peers […]
By Mitch Cohen Going into our Shabbaton in Tzfat, the cohort had already prepared for the mindset by beginning our conversations about Kidusha by starting the tenuous process of creating our very own tfillin from scratch. Rabbi Noah Greenberg, leading us through this creation, taught us about the idea of L’shem Kidusha Tfillin; acting with […]
By Henry Weltman Personally, I always enjoy learning about new and exciting nonprofit organizations with missions to help kids and families around the world. That is why I feel lucky to have met Jacob Sztokman. As the sole Founder and Director of the Gabriel Project Mumbai, he was able to teach us what it takes […]
By Julia Lustig Being someone who has grown up with a well-rounded education in Jewish text study through my many years at Jewish day school, I often feel well prepared and relatively knowledgeable when engaging in the texts of our biblical history. I have often struggled with the question of why Jewish day schools stress the […]
By Nicole Zador I fell asleep the first time I meditated. I was in my living room, my mom sitting beside me, her phone propped on the arm of her chair spewing breezy faux-Asian music while a British man with a very deep voice described a beach scene. It felt ridiculous. That memory played through […]
By Talia Subar Having been to Israel five times, I realize I have become skeptical about tours I take around this amazing country. Before going on Nachshon I thought the tours I would be taking would all be the same, and that it would be hard for me to learn something new. The Tsfat tour […]
By Molly Auerbach As someone who started going to Camp Ramah in California at the age of nine, was a camper there for seven years and will be returning this upcoming summer for my fifth summer on staff, Amy Skopp Cooper was one of the speakers I was most excited to hear from. Ever since I […]
