Dear Parents,

Tisha Bav is always a powerful day but especially this year. After our night program, we had a late wake-up and a morning program discussing the concept of kinnot, personal poetic expressions of tragedies; communal, national and individual.  After our discussion, we had all the teens write their own personal expression of a tragedy.

In the afternoon, we watched a very moving movie of the disengagement from Gaza in 2005 called the Home Game.  It is a nowaday example of a tragedy on the national level. Brought me and others to tears.

We finished the day at the Western Wall with many other NCSY programs and then to a milk restaurant in the center of town.

We ate with one other group and broke out towards the end of the meal in song and dance. It was amazing!

I also have to say that I am so proud of all those who fasted the entire day as they tried to connect to the meaning of the day. Kol Hakavod!

R David Zahtz

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