Hadracha Evening
By: Eitan Lindsider | Mazkir, Atlanta This past Wednesday, the Atlanta Madrichim along with the Shul’s youth group leaders were given the opportunity to learn about some strategies to best serve the kids in our community from Dr. Asher Lindenbaum. We discussed different ways to handle kids who are acting out, be it one kid […]
Parshat Toldot
By: David Halevy | Shaliach, Detroit In our Parasha, it is told about the wells that Isaac excavated after settling in Nahal Gerar. In fact, digging the wells is Isaac’s only act that the Torah describes, describing their names and his struggles to keep them. After the first and second excavation, Gerar’s shepherds quarrel with […]
LA Chessed Fair
By: Noga | Shin-shinit, LA In the spirit of Thanksgiving, the Shaarey Zedek Youth Director organized a Chessed Fair where families had the opportunity to give back and say “thanks”. Activities included decorating and packing Shabbat Kits to be delivered to people in the hospital as well as writing loving notes to elders and families […]
Tie Die Event – Taf
By: Gavriella Jacobs | Rosh Taf This past Sunday, Taf (2-3 grade) had fun tie dyeing T-shirts. This engaging activity helped build a greater connection between the chanichim and their madrichim beyond the weekly SNIF programming. We got to connect over this activity, picking out colors and patterns and decorating together. To strengthen this bond, we […]
Opening Tochnit
Great Neck On Sunday we had an opening event for Bnei Akiva Great Neck. The idea was to do a shuk with stations, which the parents and the kids can walk around and enjoy it. There was a Tshirt making station (which we print Bnei Akiva Semel on the shirts). There was a photo booth […]
Movie Night!
By: Shira Stein | Lower Merion This past Sunday we had a movie night for two of our divisions, Gad (grades 3 & 4), and Hav (grades 5 & 6). The two movies that were shown were Coco, a movie about the Hispanic day of the dead, and The Croods, featuring the journey of a […]
Interview with Moshava Wild Rose Camp Director
Dikla (Stanleigh) Weitzner | Toronto, Ontario, CA Shevet Achdut Current role in Bnei Akiva Moshava of Wild Rose Director What is your first memory of Bnei Akiva? A grade 3 shabbaton Your favourite bnei akiva memory? My summers at Moshava Wild Rose and the friends I made. Second is being a part of opening Moshava […]
Parshat Chayei Sara
By Rav Shaul Feldman | Director of Bnei Akiva of the US and Canada What is life all about? Strange name our Parhsa has this week… “Chayey Sara” Saras life! When we start reading the Parsha, other than the first Pasuk which sums up her age. The entire topic referring to Sara is about her […]
Make your own Crembo
By: Moshe Amar | Rosh Snif Hollywood FL This past Saturday night, my family and I hosted a make your own Crembo night for Chevra Bet Bnei Akiva of Florida. We made our own tasty Crembos’ all with different designs and sizes. We also had tomato soup and hot chocolate. Now kind of Bnei Akiva […]
Lech L’snif!
By: Natanya Rubin | Tzevet, Houston This past week for Parsha Lech Lecha, all of the Bnei Akiva sniffim from BANA did the same peulah. We decided to combine all the shvatim together and run our peulah with the entire snif. We started out with a Rock Paper Scissors tournament of epic proportions in which […]