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  Erev Shabbos! We started another one of our fantastic days with a visit to the Safeway Market. Little did we know, there was a whole aisle dedicated to kosher food! Next, we headed to a trampoline sports park called Bounce. There were basketball hoops that we dunked on. We also had an intense game […]

Hi everyone! We started off the 115 degree day with a trip to the Palm Springs Air Museum. We got to see and learn about World War planes and even got to meet some pilots. After fun learning programs led by Racheli S. and Racheli A. at the museum, we were ready to escape the […]

Best day ever! We started off our day at Fiesta Village. You may think it is a village full of partying, with maracas and sombreros, but it was actually a place with awesome rides, batting cages, mini golf, and an arcade. Everyone eventually made it to the arcade because that’s where the air conditioning was […]

Today was a fantastic day! To start off, we (davened of course and then) ate an excellent breakfast in LA. We then loaded the buses and began our 3-hour journey to San Diego’s Sea World. Towards the beginning of the drive, our two buses got off the highway and stopped in order for us to […]

Hey everyone! Today was an eventful day! We were all split up from our groups to fly to LA on about eight different flights. I (Ahuva Fried) was on the 6:05am flight and got no sleep. We arrived in LA at about 9:00am. Everything was going great until we were at baggage claim and I […]

On Sunday we woke up, with a sun so bright And we knew that today would be just right Headed to the zoo, we started our way, With much excitement for a really good day As we arrived, into groups we were split, Everyone was happy, no one threw a fit Eagles, monkey, and jaguars […]

What’s up Yad B’Yaders?!  Let’s look back at our first Shabbos as a family. We started off our first Shabbos morning with a beautiful davening followed by a delicious Kiddush #food. Next, unfortunately, the boys and girls split up for learning groups #separationanxiety. The girls had a conversation about being present in a conversation #inclusion, […]

Yad B’Yad finally got under way today when everyone met up in West Orange. We started off with a pizza lunch. Then we headed out to bowling; it was so much fun. After that we went back to the shul to play an ice breaker called “fruit bowl,” where we all got to learn really […]

Today was a really powerful day. Every activity we did felt like nothing could be better. First we had a program about exclusion and its effects. We thought we already learned about the power of inclusion and got it down pat until we saw a video clip of us caught in the act of exclusion […]

Hi everyone!! We had an amazing second day at Yad B’Yad orientation. We started off the day with some delicious waffles. Then we played some great ice-breakers (question cards and “brushing up”) and learned so much about each other. We also did some great activities learning about inclusion, teamwork, and friendship. We then headed up […]

We had an awesome first day of Yad B’Yad 2014!! The Teaneck bus was first to arrive at the Powell House. We played some great icebreakers to get to know each other until the Five Towns bus arrived. Once we were all together we davened Mincha for the first time as a group. Then, we […]