Summer 2014

Today on NCSY GIVE was full of laughs, balloons, acting and professional medical clowns. Our friend Jeff, a professional medical clown, traveled up north to teach the girls of GIVE how to be professional medical clowns. The girls learnt everything from how to walk, laugh, and create funny scenarios. We broke for lunch and afterwards Jeff taught the girls how to make balloon animals. This is especially important when we go to children centers because every girl will have the skill to make balloon animals for the children! Then GIVE left to go up to the Golan Heights and we ended our day off with an awesome night activity. On the moshav we played glow in the dark Pacman and the girls definitely dominated the advisors. After a day full of fun we are getting a full nights sleep for our jam packed day tomorrow.

Hi Im Gennifer with a G and I’m from New Jersey! The first Shabbos at Camp GIVE was amazing!!! We just shmoozed and chilled and ate… ALOT! We had the great opportunity to hear a speech from the amazing Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller about our favorite mitzvos, which was truly inspiring. my favorite part of Shabbos was Ebbing! I truly enjoyed sitting in a circle with the rest of the GIVErs and just singing your heart out. Later in the night we had “So You Think You Can Dance,” where we split into teams and danced for the judges. We all had so much fun! Shabbos couldn’t have been more fun! I wish everyday was Shabbos! Shout out to Mom and Dad Berko! I love you!

NCSY GIVE’s first Shabbos up in the Golan was a memorable one! Starting with a beautiful candle lighting ceremony guided by your Bus Head, Margot,  girls had a chance to speak about people they admired. We then had a beautiful Kabbalat Shabbat with singing and dancing, which was a prelude to our meal full of songs and hype! The annual tisch ended our night off with a bang! The next morning the girls davened, learned with our advisors, and heard a speech from Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller who happened to be staying in the same hotel as us. From there we had lunch and the girls had a few hours to rest. Some slept, played games, talked, or even took the opportunity to learn with advisors and our GIVE Rabbi, Rabbi Felberman. After Menucha the GIVE girls had another opportunity to learn with anyone they desired from our “GIVE Beit Midrash.” The “GIVE Beit Midrash” is a GIVE tradition and an extremely incredible opportunity for the girls to learn from many books that are avaiable. We ended off our night by singing, and a beautiful musical Havdallah lead by Rabbi Felberman. On Saturday night we had a very entertaining night activity, which was called “So You Think You Can Dance.” Teams were split up and given genres of dances, and every group had to perform a dance created within 30 minutes. The night ended off with dancing, singing, and pizza. The weekend as a whole was truly meaningful and the girls are looking forward for the week to come!

The second day on NCSY GIVE started off on an incredible high as we hiked down the edge of Har Arbel. Singing and dancing, the girls had a chance to overlook the breathtaking view of the lower Galilee. The guides were so impressed with the girls piercer branch and positive attitude while hiking down the huge mountain. Afterwords we cooled down in tap macholet as the girls purchased ice cream. Then we made our way to the ever of the Rambam. Miriam, our assistant director, explained to the girls a little bit about his history and philosophy. Following mincha we had lunch and continued to tour the Rambam center. The tour guide played a few games with the girls as he brought the Torah to life. Soon we’ll be going back to the hotel to get ready for Shabbos kodesh! We will be spending Shabbos up in the Galil, NCSY GIVE is looking forward to spending an inspirational and wonderful first Shabbos together! Shabbat Shalom!

Our first day started with an exciting water hike in Majrase. The beautiful greenery around our refreshing hike was only one wonder of the Galil we experienced today. After our hike we made our way to a park in The Katzrin village in the Golan Heights. We had a delicious lunch consisting of schwarma, pita, and Israeli salad! We then made our way into the ancient village where advisors put on skits to teach lessons that Talmudic personalities had said themselves, while we were sitting in some of their original houses. We walked through ruins of an ancient shul where a scribe met us and displayed to the girls his incredible calligraphy. After learning about our ancient history we stopped at a local grocery store to pick up some snacks! Ending the day with our first chaburah, the buzz around the GIVE girls were that they can’t wait for more to come! We had an Israeli stye dinner with an icebreaker and a fun “bedazzle your Fanny” (our fanny packs of course) night activity. Thursday nights Rabbi Felberman, the honoray GIVE rabbi, will be kicking off our first mishmar of GIVE 2014! Looking forward to a wonderful Shabbos up in the north!

After taking of from JFK on time GIVE arrived to Ben Gurion around five thirty. The clapping as the pilot landed the plane started us off on our exciting adventure! We are all looking forward to a fantastic summer in Israel! We had a delicious dinner in Tveria and settled in the Galil for the night.

This is the day that you get to meet your new GIVE family!

Make sure you have the flashmob down pat! Eretz Yisroel won’t know what hit them!

See you later tonight!

Love,

Your NCSY GIVE Staff