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Here comes Yad B’Yad building a raft, Building a great big raft, Here comes Yad B’Yad building a raft And this is how it goes: Knot to knot; team to team; sand to sea; And then we swam around. Here comes Yad B’Yad riding on a donkey, Riding on a big fat donkey, Here comes […]

Today we split up into groups that did the same events but at different times of the day. We went to the chocolate factory, Har Ben-Tal, as well as rode on the jeeps. For lunch, we ate Pizza!! Our bus started at the chocolate factory, where we had the opportunity to make and eat some […]

Today was another AMAZING day on Yad B Yad! We started off with a delicious breakfast to give us energy for a long, exciting day. Our first stop was the Lebanon border where we met this guy wearing a really cool shirt. He explained to us the history of the Kibbutz and his reasoning for […]

We piled into Monsey’s houses And wore our best suits and blouses. We sang after a beautiful shabbos meal, With a sense of ruach that seemed unreal. Shabbos day we had a blast, All the songs and games went by so fast. We bet it won’t take a while, For Moyo’s dance to be the […]

After thinking about this day for so long, the day has finally come. We met up with as everyone today in Monsey, NY. We played tons of ice-breakers, waiting for more and more people to arrive. Finally, after everyone arrived, we had pizza for lunch. IT WAS GREAT PIZZA. After lunch, we had a blast going. […]

Today was a really meaningful day on YBY 2014. It was the last day we would all be together on Yachad’s West Coast Experience. It was such a sad day for many but an exciting day for others. Wewere leaving all of our new friends, but also beginning to apply what we learned on YBY to […]

Hey, YBY 14 trip 2!! Today was a very emotional day being that it was our last day on the program. We started off the day with the usual davening and breakfast. We then got on the buses and we were on our way to the Golden Gate Bridge #dejavu. Kayla and Yair lead learning […]

This past Shabbat was an incredible way to spend our last Shabbos together. We started off Shabbat with a beautiful Carlebach Kabbalat Shabbat with a lot of singing and dancing. The theme of the Shabbos was graduation. On Friday night we all received “diplomas” and were each assigned a friend to write a shabbat-o-gram to. […]

Today was an exciting day! We got to see how Jelly Belly’s are made in a tour of the factory. We got these awesome Jelly Belly hats and throughout the tour, we sampled different flavors of Jelly Belly’s (cherry was our favorite). We learned that a Jelly Belly takes more than a week to make! […]

Birshus Rabbeim, family, friends, and teachers, This past Thursday, YOM TEAM YACHAD, we experienced something unlike anything ever experienced before-we went to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (Six Flags, more flags, more fun!). As we arrived in the parking lot, we took a short break for learning groups run by two of our wonderful counselors, Shoshana […]

Today, at Yom Hachanich we had a really good time And that’s why we’re writing it down in a rhyme Our counselors left (it was quite a low blow) But campers stepped up and ran the show The theme of the day was an “Olympic” style We worked really hard-it was worth the while Groups […]

Tuesday was another fun-filled day on YBY. We started off at Fisherman’s Warf in San Francisco, where we walked around and shopped in fun stores. We played a game called “duffle shuffle” as we walked.  It was a scavenger hunt where we had to find different things for every letter of the alphabet. As we […]

On Monday we went to see the coolest trees ever! Our lovely conductor, Travis, guided us through the forest on a train. Travis was also a circus performer and showed us some cool tricks. We had a lot of fun playing games and singing on the trains. The trees were really old and tall, it […]

Hi Ya’ll! We just want to fill you in on our awesome day at the beach! When we got to the beach, we chilled on the sand, went in the water, played volleyball, dug holes, and built sand castles. When we went in the water- it was cold at first, but eventually, we were having […]