By: Nicole Steizel, Rosh Chinuch Tnua Israel Hatzeirá b’Argentina When speaking about Yom HaShoah, we always consider it to be the most terrible event that the Jewish people have experienced—one of the worst catastrophes that humanity has suffered. I believe that every person who is reading this article considers it to be that way. I […]
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By: Xime Lindner, Rosh Chinuch Hanoar Hatzioni B’Uruguay As the day of Yom HaShoah approaches, questions arise and flutter in my head, many of them related to the subject of memory: Is it true that those who cannot remember their past are condemned to repeat it? What is a memory? What purpose does it serve?
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By: Gabo Degen, Mazkal Hanoar Hatzioni History, as with all the social sciences, is complex and vulnerable, but at the same time, it can be dynamic and acknowledge its errors, correcting itself to the extent that reveals new sources. The historical mistake of defining the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with the name and number of a
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By: Michael Rosenthal, Rosh Chinuch Kineret Tnuat Noar Pesach is one of the most important holidays for the Jewish people. Every fourteenth night of Nisan in the Pesach Seder, we remember how God freed us from slavery in Egypt. And this is precisely what Pesach is all about—freedom. And every year, we sit around the
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By: Kito Hasson We can point out at least three aspects inherent to Pesach that share a singular educational, conceptual and experiential unity with Hanoar Hatzioni. And they are: Nachshon Ben Aminadav, the first Halutz; Pesach, the great festival of the Aliya; and Chazak Ve’ematz, the greeting and the message of Moses to Joshua. Nachshon
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By: Vanina Bazaga – Rosh Chinuch Olam BeYahad, Argentina “And this is what kept our fathers, and what keeps us, surviving. For not only one arose and tried to destroy us; rather, in every generation they try to destroy us, and Hashem saves us from their hands”. (VEHI SHEAMDA) We are currently celebrating Pesach, a
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By: Diego Bieber, Mazkirut Olamit Hanoar Hatzioni B’Israel Have you heard about putting an orange on the Keara of the Pesach Seder? Surely, the vast majority of you have not. To be honest, until recently, I had not either. Apparently, this tradition began with Dr. Susannah Heschel when, after a lecture, a man stood up
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By: Ariela Shanider Ackerman, Rosh Chinuch Hanoar Hatzioni B’Peru Purim is the chag of joy, in which we remember an interesting chapter in the history of the Jewish people and the incredible act of heroism of Esther and Mordechai who saved the Jews from Haman’s plans. This holiday has many traditions and customs, from the
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March 1948 Friends of the Tnua: This is what I wanted to write to you: that I am currently living all those words that I once sang in the Tnua and could not understand. Today, these words became flesh and bones; now I understand their true meaning. Every song, every hymn, has within it so
By: Yarin Chacham, Rosh Chinuch Hanoar Hatzioni Antwerp How do we celebrate Purim? We celebrate Purim in our two Kenim (Brussels and Antwerp) with activities about the stories of the Chag (Megilat Esther, Masks, the Persian Empire, the lot…) and finish our day with our traditional disguise contest. In Hanoar Hatzioni Belgium we see Purim
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