Students collect Shoes for the Village!
Winchester Thurston middle school students and teacher Adam Brownold recently collected shoes for the kids of the Children’s Village in Karmiel, Israel. Teachers traveling on our upcoming study seminar to Israel will present these shoes to the Village on behalf of Winchester Thurston. Way to go, WT!
Israel Trip Leads to Rewards That Aren’t on a Map
This Article was circulated in the latest edition of The Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh’s newsletter ‘The Insider.’ Classrooms Without Borders is a program of the Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. The three-year-old Pittsburgh nonprofit offers travel-based programs to help teachers enhance their teaching of the Jewish experience and to help […]
Countdown!
One week until we leave, getting ready, making lists and checking them twice!!
Children’s Village 2014 – Columbus School for Girls
Check out this blog from one of our partner schools–The Columbus School for Girls in Columbus, Ohio. These adventurers just returned from a service trip to the Children’s Village in Karmiel, Israel, where they lived with host families working with at-risk youth. While they were there, they also spent time touring Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, […]
Children’s Village Teen Service Trip- Jerilyn Scott
Tuesday and Wednesday March 25th and 26th, 2014 Tuesday was an emotionally powerful day as we finished our time in Jerusalem. We began on the Mount of Olives, which offers an amazing bird’s eye view of the whole city. We stood at the sacred Jewish cemetery and looked out over the Old a City including Temple […]
Children’s Village Teen Service Trip- Alex O’Connor
Trip to the High School Today we had the privilege of visiting the local school in Karmi’el and learning about the student’s classes and their lifestyle’s. We were first taken to a lesson to have a discussion with the students. When I heard this I feared it would not be an exciting learning experience, […]
Children’s Village Teen Service Trip- Jerilyn Scott
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 Wow, we’ve covered a lot of ground in the last thirty-six hours! We left the Village early Sunday morning with lots of mixed emotions. Everyone was excited to see the amazing sites to come, but also genuinely sad to leave. Over about three and a half hours, we left the lush, green, Mediterranean […]