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Another sick day on YBY 2015, the good type of sick not the bad type. That was all before we even got to the border of Lebanon. Once there we learned about what life is like for those living and serving in Kibbutz Misgav Am. Our tour guide, a man from Cleveland who made Aliyah 50 […]

Hey everyone! Yad B’Yad has gotten off to a really great start this summer. First we made our way to raft building on the Kinneret. This was an amazing team building experience where everyone worked together to securely build their own rafts. There were seven different teams and each one came up with their own […]

Hello! K-Dawg and E-Dawg here today. We really started the day 24 hours ago when we were getting ready to start our Israel journey. Towards the end of the flight we were eager and enthusiastic to finally be home! As we got off the plane we were greeted with signs and singing from our Israeli […]

Hey everyone, it is Jacob Rosenfeld and Daniel Lichter here to recap events from Shabbos and Sunday in a fun way. After an early wakeup to leave the manor of grace, many people fell asleep on their face. After meeting up with more participants in the shul, we went bowling making many people feel so […]

The last day of Yad B’Yad had an awesome start. After our last night sleeping in the hotel with YBY, we prepared to head [back] out to Disneyland! With our hats and sunscreen and water, of course. Being in the happiest place on earth with the happiest people was really amazing. Everyone had the chance […]

Rewind, Play, Fast-Forward.  That was the theme of our final Shabbos of YBY, in L.A.  I got the feeling though that everyone wished they had stopped at “rewind.”  Daniella, Josh, and Rivka planned a beautiful Shabbos for us that really put everything we experienced into perspective.  Throughout Shabbos, they helped us remember our accomplishments.  Thinking about […]

Wow! What another fantastic day on YBY- it was jam-packed! Followed by davening and a great breakfast we headed to the buses and off to the Warner Bros. Studios where we received a VIP behind the scenes tour of our favorite TV shows. Some groups even met celebs along the way! After the amazing tour […]

Hey Everyone! We started off our day saying goodbye to the US Grant and headed to the beach! We had yummy steak wraps and then went down to the water. We got soaked, some of us more than others, and then went to the shops to do some shopping. We then reloaded the bus and went […]

A very special and meaningful day for me would hands down be the day we went to the famous San Diego Zoo, then started the fast (Tisha B’av). The day started off amazing! We got to the San Diego Zoo, got split into groups and explored the zoo. My group went to see the monkeys, […]

It all began with some Krispy Kreme donuts at Breakfast. As we said adiós to Arizona, Ari Zucker (aka Ron) made some very important phone calls to the Krispy Kreme Manufacturers. We received some pertinent information on the donuts, including if it was the donuts or the kreme that was krispy (both), if they remembered when a […]