Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Machon Maayan
Last week I was truly fortunate to travel to Israel to see the fruits of NCSY’s latest project- Machon Maayan. How is it going you may ask? Read on and you’ll have your answer in one student’s own words…
“This program has introduced me to aspects of Judaism that I never knew existed. It has forced me to delve deep into why I have called myself a Jewish woman. It has introduced me to the hidden spirituality behind minhagim that I have been carelessly doing for years. It is here that I have learned Jewish philosophies and concepts that, in all of my years at a Jewish Day school, I did not touch upon. My eyes have been opened up to view the world in a way that no one could have shown me. I had to see and experience this way of life for myself; I couldn’t have just heard about it from someone else.”