Category: Summer 2021

Nicole, girl on left, is from St. Louis, MO and is entering 10th grade at Ladue High School. After we got to the hotel on Friday, we got ready for Shabbat and wrote Shabbatograms. I got to write to my older sister who is also on TJJ Midwest. Then we got on the bus and…

Eli Peters is from St. Louis, MO, and is going into 10th grade in Webster Groves High School. Today we woke up in the Bedouin tents and went to Masada. I’ve been looking forward to Masada for a very long time, so today was very special to me. We hiked up the Roman Ramp instead…

Julia Salita, girl on the right, is from Minnesota and just graduated from high school. She will be starting college in the fall. Waking up in Eilat, I had a feeling it was going to be quite hot out so I mentally prepared myself. We started off our day by going a place called, Top…

Noah Devir, from Chicago, IL, is entering 11th grade at Kenwood Academy. Today was jam packed with fun and hard activities, including an early morning hike, which had us waking up at 4 am to see the sunrise on the mountains in the southern district of Eilat, and all sorts of water activities on the…

Gabriel Bernstein, boy on the right, is going into 11th grade and attends Ladue High School in St. Louis, MO. Today we started off by going to Samuel’s Tomb and Rav Noam led us in song and prayer. After a short bus ride we had the opportunity to go to Dialogue in the Dark, which…

Harley Schwarz is from Buffalo Grove and is going into 11th grade at Stevenson High School. Last night marked the start of the mourning of the destruction of ancient temple. Instead of ending Shabbat with a concluding Havdalah service like we have done the last couple weeks, we shifted our mindsets to a mindset of…

Jacob Weiner, from Aurora, IL just graduated high school and is going to attend University of Denver in the fall. Today was another great day on TJJ filled with lots of fun and activities. We started off the day by going rock climbing which I am very good at. Then we ate lunch at the…

Aimee is from Highland Park, IL and attends Highland Park High School. Today was an impactful and meaningful day. We first started off touring around Har Herzl. During our tour we listened to a few stories about soldiers who sacrificed their life in war. After our visit at Har Herzl we went to the Yad…

Mandy Cassius, girl on left, is a senior at White Station High School from Memphis, TN. Today, we went to Ir David where we trekked through the tunnel of a cave. The cave was pitch black and the water was super cold, but it was exciting to just splash through the cave tunnel while only…

  Lily Greenberger, is a 10th grader at Hopkins High School in Hopkin, Minnesota. This moring started off great. I got up early and got to see the sunrise. After breakfast and loading the bus, we headed of to the Cave of Mackpelah. When we got there, all of the advisors gave some backstory on…