Hoshana Rabba Limmud
By: David Halevy Detroit Shaliach It was the first Hoshana Raba Limud night ever! It’s so exciting to establish this wonderful tradition. Rabbi Shaya Katz, Rabanit Rikki Katz and Rabbi Silverstein gave the Shiurim. We started the Limud at the Beit Midrash in Chavrutot and continued at Rabbi Shaya’s Sukkah. Eventually, we had a […]
Chicago Sukkot Fun
By: Tova Kahan | Mazkira Galil What a fun-filled, educational Sukkot it was for Bnei Akiva of Chicago! Chevraya Aleph got ready for the holiday with an arts and crafts event at which they created their very own Yerushalayim-themed Sukkah decorations. Chevraya Bet participated in its annual Schach Run, delivering Sukkah materials to Jewish […]
Detroit Sukkascape
By: Liat Halevy | Shaliach During the Chag we enjoyed a great activity of escape the sukkah and Shakshuka. It was very challenging and fun. The teenagers made a very good job, found all the 7 Haminim and succeeded to escape…
The Amazing Ushpizin Race!
By: Noah Roffe | Rosh Snif Chicago This past week in Bnei Akiva Chicago, we sent our chanichim on… The Amazing Ushpizin Race! Usually we invite the Ushpizin to visit our sukkot, but we thought it would be more fun to give them a break and visit their sukkot. Each kvutza was given a […]
Sukkot in St Louis
By: Sophie Chervitz | Mazkira Galil Over sukkot, snif St. Louis had an amazing sukkah hop around the community! Starting at the shul we had mifkad and then started our hopping journey! Madrichim led their eidot from house to house and played fun games and ate food at each one. We concluded at the […]
With Rav Shaul
Parshat Bereshit
By: Devorah Goldson | Merekezet Tochniot, Bnei Akiva of the US & Canada We just finished celebrating the Chag of Sukkot and Simchat Torah, when we rejoice and dance to celebrate the precious gift Hashem gave us! Now we come to the very first parsha in the Torah – Bereshit; a new book, a new […]
Detroit Hadracha
By: Dani Lerman | Mazkir of Bnei Akiva of Detroit Our Hadracha Shabbaton was extremely successful in kicking off the year for our Madrichim. Our shabbaton was geared around the quote “with great power comes great responsibility” and what it means to be a Madrich for Bnei Akiva. Our Madrichim immediately started taking responsibility by […]
Parshat Ha’azinu
By: Yosef Cashdan, Shaliach Bnei Akiva of Cleveland “הַצּוּר תָּמִים פָּעֳלוֹ, כִּי כָל-דְּרָכָיו מִשְׁפָּט…וַיִּטֹּשׁ אֱלוֹהַּ עָשָׂהוּ, וַיְנַבֵּל צוּר יְשֻׁעָתוֹ… צוּר יְלָדְךָ, תֶּשִׁי, וַתִּשְׁכַּח, אֵל מְחֹלְלֶךָ.” (דברים ל”ב: ד’, ט”ו, י”ח) The Rock!—His deeds are perfect, Yea, all His ways are just; A faithful God, never false, True and upright is He….He forsook the God who […]
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