During Sukkot, we leave the familiar and permanent home and enter the sukkah- a temporary and simple dwelling. This unique transition invites us to ask a fundamental question about our lives: What actually turns a place, even a temporary one, into a home? Is it the walls, the furniture, the thatched roof, the decorations? […]
On Learning Hebrew and Arabic at the Same Time. Nicole Abraham: MITF TLV + Nazareth writes about her languages journey in Israel […]
Leap just had our first weekend back in the mechina since returning from San Francisco, and it was a busy one! […]
Parashat Toldot, presents a painful model of togetherness – "together we will prevail" is the togetherness of difference. Of those who recognize and give space to the differences among them and yet still are able to come together for common goals. […]
The long days of summer have somehow added up to short months and we are approaching a year since the events of October 7. In the midst of this time of tension and pain, we encounter Tisha B’Av. Marcie shares her reflections on Tisha B’Av and how the day feels this year. […]
What is the meaning of “Lech Lecha”? Is it the way to fulfill one’s destiny? Is it a call to go to the one place where you truly belong, or to search for the place where you will become who you are meant to be? Is it the path of reason, or perhaps the way of the heart? Or is it the essence of the connection between them? From where does a person draw the strength to set out without asking why, when no clear destination is in sight? […]
From Friends to Family. Marielle and Michael, MITF TLV + Ramla participants, write about their journey in Israel […]
Marielle and Michaela explore their experience with five unexpected skills you can now expect to learn on MITF: Masa Israel Teaching Fellowship . Read all about it in their blog here>>> […]
This week, Marcie Yoselevsky, External Relations Associate at BINA speaks with Vered Avidan about leading Kabbalat Shabbat these last weeks. […]
At the beginning of the parasha Moses tells the nation how God refused to hear him. Later he will ask them to hear and listen to him, he will repeat the Ten Commandments to them and remind the people in front of him how their hearts did not have enough faith and love to hear and listen to God. Their disbelief, causing him to be a mediator before God for forty years in the desert, exhausted him. […]
