by Jared Shih | Sep 6, 2018 | Featured, Uncategorized
The following is the text of a D’Var Torah (sermon) that Spring 2018 alum Joanna Tasch delivered on August 17 to Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, California. Joanna is a rising senior in high school. Growing up, I was always taught to love Israel....
by Jared Shih | Aug 20, 2018 | Featured, Uncategorized
With less than one week to go until the departure of Fall 2018, our staff in Israel are hard at work getting ready for the arrival of our newest students. Three of those staff are our wonderful Fall 2018 Madrichim (counselors)–Nitzan, Mili, and Omri. Our Heller...
by Jared Shih | Jul 5, 2018 | Featured, Uncategorized
On June 1, the Spring 2018 semester of Heller High came to a close. The students have returned, and the final transcripts have been sent; summer is here and school is out! So what does the Heller High staff do now? When summer arrives, our staff hit the road. They are...
by Jared Shih | May 22, 2018 | Featured
Each semester, all Heller High students participate in a Mock Knesset–a full group, day long activity that introduces the basics of how the Israeli government forms and operates. The Knesset, which literally means “gathering” or...
by Jared Shih | Apr 26, 2018 | Featured
Since its inception in 1961, URJ Heller High (formerly NFTY-EIE) has been our Movement’s most intense, challenging and rewarding Jewish living and learning Israel experience for teens. URJ Heller High alumni have gone on to be leaders of Jewish communities...
by Jared Shih | Mar 28, 2018 | Featured, Uncategorized
By Arielle K., 11th Grade, Irvington, NY The first thing I saw this morning was a lichen [slow-growing plant] growing on a tombstone in what was once a thriving Jewish shtetl in Poland, a true Kehillah Kedoshah, Tykocin. In August of 1941, all the Jews of Tykocin were...
