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What can a scavenger hunt tell you about Judaism?
Waking up this morning was a large accomplishment, only running on 4 hours of sleep I managed to get out of bed, shower, eat, and get ready for the day ahead. This day was Judaism day, and during the...
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A Kohlrabi of Fun!
We started off our day by saying our last goodbyes to our host parents as we left for Rayman's for the last morning. We were then divided into three groups. One going to Pitchon Lev, a food bank, and...
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How many Jews does Pittsburgh really have... And why is this important?
Today was the first full day of North American Kennes 2013 and what a day it was! We started out with breakfast, of course, but then we jumped straight into our tribe meetings, or our "tribing" as our...
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The Israelis are HERE!
At an early 8:30 this morning, we were uprooted from our all-American rooms. Although schlepping our luggage bags out of our rooms may have been a struggle, the exhaustion was overpowered by the...
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Leadership Unmasked
This morning, the Diller teens awoke from their beds to begin on yet another remarkable journey. We all gathered for a Diller 2013 picture. It was so hard to grasp the fact that there were close to 400...
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Shabbat at congress
Yesterday, we had our first full day with our Israeli counterparts, it was also Shabbat. We welcomed the sabbath with a white parade around givat haviva and various types of services (musical,...
View ArticleA bitter sweet goodbye
Today was our last day at the wonderful Givat Haviva resort and spa... (Sarcasm). We had spent the past five days living here with 381 other Jewish teens. We have all made so many friends and...
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Connecting the Trip
Walking into the פלמח (Palmach) museum, none of us knew what to expect. We had all learned about the Holocaust but the journey that Jews took to Israel was foreign to many of us. We were given...
View ArticleOur Last Day Together
After waking up at the time we were supposed to have our packed bags on the bus outside of our hotel, my roommates and I hurriedly stuffed our suitcases and ran outside to begin one of the most...
View ArticleJC Closing Letter to Cohort 4
Dear Pittsburgh Diller Cohort 4,Today is August 6 and tomorrow you are returning home to your families in Pittsburgh. But before you think about that, we wanted to go over a few things you've done in...
View ArticleOur Last Shabbaton Together
Over this last weekend cohort four spent its last nights together at a Diller event. With this in mind we all prepped to have the best and most meaningful weekend possible. We arrived late Friday...
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Inspired to Make a Difference
It’s truly amazing how close our C4 Diller family has become. It was clearly evident at our last workshop. It was our first workshop with Chris, which we started out with “Good and Welfare". Good...
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First Workshop
Over the past weekend we had our first workshop. We started out by doing ice breakers to get people to loosen up and to help everyone learn each other’s names. Even though we haven’t known each other...
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What Defines You?
What really defines you? Is it how others look at you,or how you look at yourself? Whats more important? On Sunday October 20, Diller cohort 5 spent a lot of time discussing these brain teasers. How...
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Cohort 5's First Shabbaton
Friday afternoon, we all arrived at the JCC, loaded up the bus, and departed for camp. We had only had one workshop prior to the Shabbaton, so most of us barely knew each each other at this point....
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Learning About Leadership Through Improv
On Sunday,November 10th, Diller Cohort 5 of Pittsburgh had our third workshop. During the workshop we did many activities that informed us of the many aspects of leadership. First, we did an activity...
View ArticleThe Journey of Bread and Water
"The Journey of Bread and Water" That was the title of this month's workshop. I thought at first we would be learning about food or something to do with keeping kosher, but the things we...
View ArticleWhat Candy Are You?
On Sunday January 5th, C5 held our fifth workshop at the JCC in Squirrel Hill. The theme of this workshop was “What candy are you?” Jess initiated the meeting by introducing us to a fun and relaxing...
View ArticleWhat Does Jewish Look Like?
On February 2nd 2014, us, the 6th cohort of Pittsburgh Diller strolled laxly into the JCC to begin the day of awesomeness. After Chris and staff ran last month’s workshop which involved lots of candy,...
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The Hebrew Mamita
Reflective of their importance, the Diller Teen Fellows strolled down a red carpet the night of February 5th. After having their picture taken, the teens waited to hear the culture...
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