On Sunday, we had our first major goodbye. Our tour guide Yoav got sick (not Covid, Baruch HaShem, as Yoav would say) and had to leave. After we said goodbye to him, we said hello to our new tour guide, Eiran. Sunday was a big day, because we were going to Gush Etzion, which is beyond a place that Israelis...Read More
The first thing we did on Friday morning was go to Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Museum. Before we arrived, Yoav talked to us about the meaning of the museum’s name. It translates to “a hand and a Name,” which we took to mean that the museum’s goal is to make every victim a person, and memorialize them. On the...Read More
On Thursday, May 5th, we woke up for our first day in Yerushalayim! We’d been up north in a heat wave, but here, we’ve been wearing pants and sweatshirts — it’s crazy! First thing in the morning, we got on the bus and drove to the Old City to have Tefillah at the Kotel. Specifically, we were at Ezrat Yisrael,...Read More
