Gesher is amazing!
Gesher is the Hebrew word for bridge because
Gesher is about the bridge experience; creating personal connections
between childhood and being a Jewish adult.
As you might imagine Gesher
students often wander back and forth across this bridge. Today, they spent most of the morning on the
adult side of the bridge attending the JNF breakfast, listening to the speakers
and accepting responsibility to collect pledge cards from the other attendees. They were amazing!!!
In preparation to be full
participants in the JNF breakfast experience, Gesher students began their day learning about JNF (Jewish National
fund)’s seven primary project areas:
- Community building
- Forestry and Green innovations: including the planting of 25 million
trees and support for fire-fighters
- Water solutions and sharing water technology
- Cultivate the land: Research
and development
- Zionist education and advocacy
- Heritage sites
- LOTEM: Making nature accessible
The following short film
was shown in class and also during the breakfast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyxINr7rf80
Since the keynote speaker
was Sorin Hershko, a hero from Operation Entebbe, we also learned about
Operation Entebbe. Students viewed the
following short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xCxzdU9dQo
After breakfast, we
debriefed their experience and they were able to keep the swag: t-shirts,
tzedakah boxes, pens…
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