_(english).jpg "The Horse in the Gate")
_(english).jpg "All the Way Home")
_(english).jpg "The Radiance of Iyar")
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_(english).gif "Counting with the 48 Ways")
_(english).jpg "Daily Omer Meditation")
August 2010
This summer Aish Connections brought over 300 students on trips – a record for one season! To date, two “Enterprize” trips have been successfully completed, bringing business students to New York City to compete for coveted internships with some of New York's top companies. Participants completed a set of business challenges which dealt with key issues facing the Jewish people, and created marketing strategies and business plans which were presented to panels of CEOs and marketing gurus. Six students won internships and some have continued on to spend time in Israel learning this summer.
Aish Connections also completed a business-focused trip for a group of students from Toronto, led by Rabbi Erez Farkas. The students were in awe of the inspiring speakers, the esteemed judging panel, and the caliber of the challenges. The trip was a roaring success and the plan is to run many more city-specific trips of this nature in the future.
This August marked the debut of a new trip called the New York City Team Challenge. Cities from across North America are gathering teams of 5 men, ages 18-25 to compete in an urban city race – the ultimate scavenger hunt! Students needed to use their brains, their bodies and their buddies to stand a chance of winning! They explored NYC while getting an opportunity to learn more about their Judaism.
Aish Connections also sent two groups of students to Israel. The Ireland-Israel trip consisted of Mix program graduates who enjoyed a 3-day European stopover before embarking on two and a half weeks of learning and touring in Israel. We also sent a contingent of highly involved students on a Poland leadership trip.
Aish Connections has also launched a new initiative for advanced students that encompasses Rabbi Noah Weinberg’s 48 Ways to Wisdom. In May, the group took New York’s Annual Israel Day Parade by storm, aiming to educate the masses about the 48 ways. Wearing t-shirts bearing info about how to learn more about the 48 Ways, they handed out over 2,900 highlighter pens and personalized stickers that they had designed, expressing and interpreting the "way" that they had chosen to learn about during this amazing program.
Coming up next: Our first trip to India!
