VLOG: Workshop SixtyFun needs a haircut
Leo’s looking more like a lion, the team meets the whole community it’s serving and three brief interviews with the cohort. Leo Robinovitch is a JewliciousU intern who is in Israel participating in…
VLOG: Workshop SixtyFun has a mission
Leo find a bat cave, learns a bit of Arabic and adjusts to life in Carmiel in this installment of Workshop SixtyFun. Leo Robinovitch is a JewliciousU intern who is in Israel participating…
VLOG: Winter chofesh on Workshop SixtyFun
A half-marathon and marathon touring with Leo and his family in this installment of Workshop SixtyFun. Leo Robinovitch is a JewliciousU intern who is in Israel participating in Masa’s gap year program, Workshop…
VLOG: Bonacopalypse on Workshop SixtyFun
It’s the end of Boneh as we know it! Tears and cheers as Leo finishes up at Kibbutz Ein Dor and prepares to move to the northern town of Carmiel. Leo Robinovitch is…
‘Sacrifice is the Israeli way’. One student’s account of her moving tour of Sderot
No matter how many Israel Day parades we may have attended, coins we have dropped in a JNF charity box, or times we have sung Hatikva, as diaspora Jews our connection to Israel…
VLOG: Good ole fashioned Zionism on Workshop SixtyFun
Trips to Haifa, Tel Aviv and the Palmach Museum add up to another rousing week of horseplay with the young lads and lasses of Workshop 61! Leo Robinovitch is a JewliciousU intern who…
The Masada mystique
The last time I had attempted to climb up the historical mountain of Masada, I had failed miserably. I was on my senior trip and it was the last day of touring before…
VLOG: Mites are right on Workshop SixtyFun
Has the lice infestation gone to Leo’s head?! Leo Robinovitch is a JewliciousU intern who is in Israel participating in Masa’s gap year program, Workshop 61, which is associated with the progressive labour…
VLOG: Workshop SixtyFun seriously settles down
Leo gets serious and gives his low down on the heated issue of settlements. Leo Robinovitch is a JewliciousU intern who is in Israel participating in Masa’s gap year program, Workshop 61, which…
Treading water in Jerusalem
I soak in the noises surrounding me. A clamorous tractor pulling garbage away, a hammer banging at a new construction site, children playing in the square. Once in a while an Israeli man…
Just another Saturday night
Have you ever met someone whom you felt like you already knew, even though you’d only just been introduced? That’s how I felt about Amir. He was charming and alluring. Amir seemed more…
A hi-tech higher education humbug
You might call me behind-the-times or out-of-date. I prefer to think of myself as “old-school.” And this epithet is particularly poignant, considering the situation in which I find myself. I try to pose…
