Hi all

This past week was action packed on Boneh! This weeks theme looked at Judaism and the relationship between the monothiestic religions. A particular focus was on Jerusalem, given the importance of the city for all the religions - and specifically the workshoppers looked at the History of Jerusalem, the Book of Chronicles, the different conquests that took place over the city, David and Solomon and Solomon's building of the Temple, and Jesus' pilgrimage to Jerusalem. On Tuesday the workshoppers excursion was to the Old City of Jerusalem, with a tour of the Southern Excavations and the Davidson centre. The centre is part of the Jerusalem Archaelogical Park and offered the workshoppers an exhibition of archaeological objects, a real time virtual reality reconstruction of the Herodian Temple, and a hugh definition video of a Jewish pilgrimage to Second Temple period Jerusalem. There is archaeological digs continuing at the moment, but the exhibition allows you to see an example of a street in the 1st century, and ancient mikveh (ritual bath) and various other spots of interest which have been uncovered in the digs.

On Wednesday, the workshoppers celebrated Succot together with the UK participants with an enormous Succot extravaganza. The morning started with a lovely Succot performance, by some of the madrichim. Afterwards, everyone was divided into small groups and had various tasks to complete such as a answering a multiple choice quiz, a Succot-themed music quiz, and a Succah building competition. We finished off by learning some Succot songs.

Early on Sunday morning, we depart for the Yam l'Yam (Sea to sea) Hike. More details will be posted shortly.

Chag Sameach and Shabbat Shalom!