Galil, Na’aleh, Moshava & Hashomer Hadracha Seminar

 

February 21st, 1999 (Baltimore) –A spokesman from the office of Habonim Dror Shlicha Maya Natan has confirmed rumours that this past weekend Baltimore hosted a “Hadracha Seminar” for ken madrichim from areas as diverse as New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Over sixty high school students spent the weekend brushing up on their hadracha (leadership) skills. The Habonim chaverim were joined by a half dozen chultzot with white strings, being worn by members of Hashomer Ha’tzair.

 The highlight of the seminar was attending a speech by former Prime Minster Shimon Peres. Amongst the collegiate crowd in the Johns Hopkins University auditorium, the warmest applause for Peres came from the from the left-wing corner, where a sea of blue chultzot greeted him with much ruach. In the midst of the serious evening, Peres did break a smile, in the question and answer period following his speech chaver t’nua Andrew Meyerson prefaced his question with “Mr. Peres, I’m a member of Habonim Dror.” The only disappointment of the evening was that Peres did not accompany the Habonim madrichim to the Beth Israel Jewish Teen Dance.

 Other memorable events of this seminar include the inter-machaneh Shabbat shira Friday night, Prime Minister Yitzhak Natan Mordechai’s coalition peulah, and a shivery Havdallah under the setting Maryland sun.

 A few seminar participants on the bus-ride home on Sunday were overheard arguing the merits of the various peulot of the weekend. “I finally learned how to plan a peulah,” said one young madricha.

“Whatever … the peulah where we got to reflect on next summer in Madatz was the best, man,” replied another.

“Dude, I learned so much hadracha this weekend, let’s just chill out and catch up on our sleep,” mumbled someone at the back of the bus.

Moshava Roshei Kenim Keep Busy

 

 Well, here we are in eizor YOU WISH YOU COULD BE AS COOL AS US, otherwise known as the Mosh Eizor.  So the icy weather here in one-snowflake-means-a- day-off-school hasn't cooled us down, cause WE ARE SIZZLING. ZZZZZ....

Sizzling our couches, due to not being able to leave our houses, that is. Anyway, off the weather tangent, our ken is basically rocking the house,even if the house is pretty cold...

 The past few weeks have been the inevitable post seminar recovery period, But we are getting back to being the most active ken in HDNA! All of us very cool roshei kenim hit Bennigans for some free food (or free for us anyhow, I think the camp committee actually paid for my chicken fajitas) and highly amusing entertainment, who could be more laughs then Stieny and Hayley?? Well, maybe Maya Natan, but don't worry, she was there too, forcing Stieny's mouth to close every so often so we could do some chatting about the eizor. The best eizor, if I may add again. Between driving our waitress to insanity with requests for "just a little bit more honey mustard sauce" and other various neccessities such as, multiple cups of soda at once, for one person (I didn't get it either) and lots and lots of extra tomatos for my fajitas.

My personal favorite waitress moment was when she assured me " You could have your own soda, you know!" as she watched me grab Ilana's pepsi and take a little swig.  She then icily informed me of Bennigan's "soda policy", (who knew corporate America had gone that far?) "Free refills but no sharing of sodas allowed" Obviously not give what you can, take what you need. Our next ken peula will be teaching the value of sharing to the world of bourgousie chain restaraunts...

  Besides netting us very full tummies, the dinner also achieved its goals of planning the next few months of ken activity. Our big excitement is the upcoming ski trip. In typical Habo fashion we are offering multiple attractions, not only skiing but a Tu B'Shvat seder and a sleepover with not only us Mosh folks but plenty of new booty options.  Its a joint N'a aleh, Galil and of course, Mosh ski trip.  We are predicting a pretty big turnout, so start polishing up those moves, No, no, not that kind of moves, i mean with your skiis!  We also put a pretty exciting Purim event on the calendar, in the tradition of great Israeli Purim celebrations we are having a DISCO.Complete with costumes, face painting and all, it is sure to be mesiba! The REAL excitement of the evening, though, will be our talent show, each kvutza will be playing star with  their own acts.  My plans are to be a rock star, I will be performing my hit song, "Weak" in a duet with Haley "high note" Pollack.

Tickets are $20 through Ticketmaster , $5 AT THE DOOR, and free if you bring  kupa treats. Just a little joke, we are socialist, its free for everyone and we will even give you some kupa treats! 

So I guess that’s what is going on in the marvelous Mosh Eizor. If there are any questions on how to run a highly succesful ken, you got the roster...!

Ariella Cohen, Rosh Ken Columbia

A MAD LIB FOR EVERY OCCASION,

OR

KEN ARAVA CHECKS IN

 

Ken Arava is located in ____________ (the city of Betsy Ross and of the team defeated by the Blue Jays). Our chanichim number ___________ (an unbelievably high number). This year, our ___________ and __________ (some adjectives) leaders are _____________ and ___________ (members of Madatz '98, which rocked the house all the way down).

 

In a ___________ and __________ (more adjectives) plot to attract _________ (pick your favorite number above 10 or we'll be insulted) chanichim, the ken went to a _________ __________ (place with snazzy shoes) in late November. After extensive ___________ (gerund) and __________ (noun), everyone had a marvelous time. Over a game of ten-pins, we discussed the merits of such Zionist thinkers as _____________ (pick your favorite Zionist thinker).

For our next pe'ulah, we'll be having a ___________ (relatively unimportant Jewish holiday that is not the Jewish version of Christmas) party in conjunction with an afternoon of  ______________ (everyone's favorite mitzvah). After the bash at the ____________ (club where the elite meet to have kosher treats), we'll take a stroll to the ever-_____________ (adjective) South Street to Thrift for AIDS and we'll help them get _____________ (what Ken Arava always is). What a way to top off our first season of Ken Philly ruach!

 

Of course, some mention of our ____________ (pick a nationality) shlicha is absolutely necessary. Without Maya's guidance, chinuch resources, and superior performance in the field of ____________ (necessary skill for the smooth running of any ken), we would be chanich-less at every pe'ulah.

 

And although we weren't alone at the Galil-Na'aleh Central Park Reunion or at Galil's fall seminar, we've got to offer a ____________ (inexpensive noun) to Shoshi for being such a __________ Rosh Eizor. ____________ (exclamatory remark), Eizor Galil! _____________ (another exclamatory self-congratulatory remark), Ken Arava!

 


The correct answers

1. Philadelphia                                                               13. Organized

2. 230!!! can you believe it??                                           14. you guessed it - Israeli!

3. fearless and brilliant                                                    15. flyer-folding, -stamping, -labeling, &-mailing!

4. Rachel Profeta and Nava Etshalom                              16. round of applause

5. cunning and successful                                              17. fabulous and exemplary

6. 30, at the very least                                                    18. woooooohoooooooo

7. Bowling alley

8. Brainwashing and Pizza

9. Dan Krinsky is the correct answer

10. Chanukah

11. Tikkun Olam                                                respectfully submitted by Rachel and Nava

12. Trendy