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Waking up in ארץ ישראל at approximately 7:30 AM, excited to start our 1st full day in the chosen מדינה, all the participants awoke and quickly dressed in order to be on time for davening (a time when one can connect to God.) After an inspiring, impactful Tefilah, we headed over to an abundant Israeli […]

After landing in Eretz Yisroel, we all gathered together for prayer and breakfast, and then set off for our first adventure of the day. We began the trip by going to Nachal Shofet, which is a wheelchair accessible park, where we finally met our Israeli friends (staff). While we were there, we learned the different […]

Dear Yad B’Yad Journal, Today was our first day of Yad B’Yad. We started off meeting up at the shul in West Orange, playing games that helped us learn each other’s names. We were then introduced to our attendance groups, and proceeded to go bowling with our attendance groups. The bowling scores ranged from 150 […]

Yom Yachad, lone solder, and biblical zoo were todays’ events. First we met Max who is a lone solder and explained how the organization works and how they treat lone solders in the Israeli army.  Next we went the biblical zoo. We were split up into animal groups and explored. We even went on a […]

Hey everybody!!  After our early camel riding journey, we were inspired to write this acrostic poem. Cozy tents kept us warm over night As soon as the sun rose we were up and alright Maybe it was early, but we didn’t care Everyone was up; a camel scent was in the air Lifted were our […]

My name is Jacob Shamash and I am the boys head counselor of Yad B’Yad trip 2. Today, I woke up for davening and watched as ten boys and ten girls walked into shul in order to begin Shacharit. After breakfast and a five minute bus ride we arrived at Red Sea Gulf Water Sports. […]

We had a crazy day in the crazy heat today. This morning we went to the Dead Sea. We made our own spa treatment with mud facials, salt scrubs, and floating. We had an amazing time even when our scrapes and eyes burned. After eating lunch we drove to Eilat. We watched an inspiring, meaningful, […]

Today was Yom Hachanich. It was filled with tons of games and activities, planned by us, the participants ourselves! The teams were split by our attendance groups and we were each responsible for preparing an exciting day. We played games like “Minute to Win It”, toilet paper mummies, an eating contest with apples. We also […]

Today was not your average day on Yad B Yad, if you see Yad B Yad on a regular day you will see smiles. However today was a more serious day and faces were filled with frowns and eyes with tears. Instead of the usual fun hikes and activities we visited the Yad Vashem holocaust […]

We woke up bright and early to load our bags onto the buses. After Tefillah and breakfast we left Beit Kay and made our way to Nachal Shofet. We hiked through trees and caves and even played a game. After the hike we got back on the bus for a nice long ride to Caesarea. […]

Today, has been yet another wonderful day in Israel! We started off our day at Rosh Hanikra where there was a beautiful view of the blue Mediterranean sea. We took a cable car down to the mountain where we were able to watch a video that described the makings of the mountain as well as […]

Today we started off with an attempt to an early wake up… But that didn’t really go so well! After a delayed davening and breakfast, we rushed onto the bus to go to an absorption center to play games with little Ethiopian children who made Aliyah within the past year or two. The 2 busses […]

Today was one of the greatest days on Yad B’Yad!! We began with repelling down a beautiful mountain And drank enough water to fill a fountain (It was sooo hot). We climbed on rocks to zip line away We flew in the air with nothing in our way. We got to try archery and shooting […]

This past Friday we visited רבי שמעון בר יוחאי׳’s grave. We were able to learn about all the Torah he and his son learned in their cave. next we were off to צפת where we wandered through the streets Then a pre shabbos music session where we danced to the beats Our shabbos theme was […]