By: Romi Morales As we reach the beginning of the new year, we hope it will be a better year than the last. We have learned that at times there are things that are not in our control, things change abruptly, life surprises us again and again. It is true, that we cannot control everything, […]
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Ari Wonsover, Hanoar Hatzioni B’Costa Rica Shavuot is a chag with many traditions and meanings. Although it is more than three thousand years old, there are still messages and values to be extracted from Shavuot. As an educational, Jewish and Zionist tnua, we must understand it, celebrate it and educate about it within our context.
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By: Sergio Edelstein Abba Deborah Yahacov Abraham Moshe Haim Diego They marked us They marked a path for us They marked us They marked us with their personal example They remind us They remind us of the objective of their realization They served us on a silver platter The dream of the Jewish People for
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THE CAUSE KEPT TEM ALIVE By: Nina Smolensky, Hanoar Hatzioni México Late 1939, Warsaw. The Warsaw Ghetto, an era and a decision with many dilemmas that no one imagined would face. 33% of the Jews were forced by German forces to stay in a specific area just for them, known as the infamous Warsaw Ghetto.
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MY THOUGHTS AFTER POLAND AND THE CAPACITY OF JUVENILE ORGANIZATION By: Eli Akerman January 1, 1942. Abba Kovner reads a shocking speech at a tnua meeting calling on Jewish youth to rebel against the Nazi oppressor. “Jewish youth: do not derail. Of the 80,000 Jews of the ‘Jerusalem of Lithuania’ (Vilna), there are only 20,000
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By: Gabriel Shnaider “Land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees, and grains; land of olive trees and honey.” (Debarim 8:8) Tu BiShvat is a holiday that gives us the opportunity to connect with our environment, evaluate ourselves within the world and reflect on our bond with nature. During the sixteenth century, in Tzfat,
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Matías Altcheh, Hanoar Hatzioni Argentina In the 2nd century BCE, the Seleucid dynasty rules the Land of Israel. This government, which began being respectful of Jewish culture, becomes more and more insistent in its desire to Hellenize the people of Israel. The Seleucids seek to establish Greek culture in the Judean region. The moment of
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By: Ari Wonsover and Gabriel Shnaider “Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, every man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by responding for his own life; life can only be answered by being
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By: Mato Wexler Sukkot is one of the three holy days, on which the pilgrimage to Jerusalem is traditionally customary, and in which the Jewish families and communities of the world meet under the same temporary roof for a week. Of course, the fact that it is temporary does not prevent us from wanting to
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By: Romi Morales In Yom Kippur, Am Israel receives one of the greatest gifts that could be offered to human beings: the opportunity to focus on forgiveness, after making a profound and authentic process of introspection. This is interesting, because not for all people this means the same thing. There are those who think that
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