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Tisha B'Av

Tisha B’Av is meant to be the saddest day of the Jewish calendar. It is a day when we commemorate the hardships that Jews have encountered throughout our history. At machaneh, this Sunday night, we observed Tisha B’Av at an evening program. The program started with short plays, put together by the madrichim, that displayed different times in hisotry where Jews have been persecuted or exiled. We created tableus of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Spanish Inquisition, the destruction of the 1st temple, the Bar Kochba Rebellion, and the Toulouse shooting that happened in March this past year. After talking about this through the lens of destruction, we had a museum about the creation of the State of Israel and the agency that the Jews gained in the past hundred years. Chanichim walked through the museum and then we had a conversation about having been oppressed and what responsibility we carry becuase of it. Lastly, all the chanichim went to the pool where we had a ceremony with a short moment of silence and sang the Hatikvah. Tisha B’Av at machaneh was about acknowledging our past in order to work for a better future.

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