Very Powerful
Tonight we were at our children's school for a Yom Haatzmaut concert featuring the moshav band. The band was great, but the best part of the concert happened before they came on stage.
We have a Kollel Torah Mitzion, which is essentially a group of three or four Israeli families who come here for a few years. They teach in the schools, run youth programming, and are very involved in the community. We also have some Sheirut Leumi girls who are in the community and work with kids in the school.
Anyway, the principal of the school called up the kollel familes on stage, to show everyone at the concert that these people would be in Israel next year. Then he called up the Sheirut Leumi girls. Then he started calling up families that are planning on making Aliyah this summer.
Then he called up the seniors from Akiva, calling the kids out by name and which school ther were going to. We also had a large group of kids from Clevelend in for the concert, and he called those seniors up as well.
All told, there were about 40-50 people at the front of the stage who will be in Israel next year. It was very powerful feeling to see them all standing there, some who are returning home, some who are going home, and some who are about to experience home for the first time.
We have a Kollel Torah Mitzion, which is essentially a group of three or four Israeli families who come here for a few years. They teach in the schools, run youth programming, and are very involved in the community. We also have some Sheirut Leumi girls who are in the community and work with kids in the school.
Anyway, the principal of the school called up the kollel familes on stage, to show everyone at the concert that these people would be in Israel next year. Then he called up the Sheirut Leumi girls. Then he started calling up families that are planning on making Aliyah this summer.
Then he called up the seniors from Akiva, calling the kids out by name and which school ther were going to. We also had a large group of kids from Clevelend in for the concert, and he called those seniors up as well.
All told, there were about 40-50 people at the front of the stage who will be in Israel next year. It was very powerful feeling to see them all standing there, some who are returning home, some who are going home, and some who are about to experience home for the first time.
posted by Air Time at 10:45 PM
4 Comments:
Your last sentence certainly evokes a "powerful feeling"-- beautifully said.
sounds like a farce of forced emotion to me.
almost no one in that group called up were actually doing more than going back to where they came from, or were going to camp israel for a year.
im surprised he didnt call up anyone who was visiting for more than a week or two.
i never thought air time was such a sap for fake inspirational shows.
a deep dissappointment.
Funny, I seem to remember seeing your kids up there...
wouldnt know.
wasnt there.
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