{"id":116432,"date":"2024-10-22T17:05:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=116432"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:35:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T09:35:01","slug":"21-00-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=116432","title":{"rendered":"Teen trip to Poland, Israel puts young leaders face to face with Jewish history"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Teen trip to Poland, Israel puts young leaders face to face with Jewish history<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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\u201cThis trip showed us the harsh reality unfiltered,\u201d said 16-year-old Jesse Goldberg of Chicago.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\"AA group of 25 Jewish teens toured Poland and Israel to learn about Jewish history and traditions, as well as past and present antisemitism, to help combat future bigotry, July 9-23, 2024. Photo by Isaac Mintz.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Twenty-five Jewish teens from around the world traveled through Poland and Israel this summer as part of a CTeen Heritage Quest designed to connect young Jews with their history and traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group visited significant Jewish sites, including the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp and the historic synagogues of Krakow.<\/span><\/p>\n

For 16-year-old Jesse Goldberg of Chicago, the experience was eye-opening. \u201cI grew up hearing stories from Holocaust survivors in Chicago, but they were just stories,\u201d he said. \u201cThis trip showed us the harsh reality unfiltered.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He explained that his motivation to join the trip stemmed from a drive to understand his roots. His great-grandfather, \u201cZaide Goodman,\u201d was born in Germany before fleeing to Belgium for safety. Eventually, as the Nazis invaded Belgium in 1940, family members scattered\u2014one joined the French resistance, while others went into hiding. Many survived, some finding work in a Volkswagen factory.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\"TeenA group of 25 Jewish teens toured Poland and Israel to learn about Jewish history and traditions, as well as past and present antisemitism, to help combat future bigotry, July 9-23, 2024. Photo by Isaac Mintz.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Rabbi Mendy Lepkivker, coordinator of CTeen summer experience, which took place from July 9-23, said that \u201cone of the most pivotal moments of the trip is flying from Poland, with the horrors of the Holocaust fresh in participants\u2019 minds, straight to Israel, where the first stop is not the hotel, but the Kotel\u201d\u2014the  Western Wall in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGoing straight to the holiest place in the world brings home this message viscerally,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to requisite sight-seeing, this year\u2019s Heritage Quest culminated in a mission to Israel with a schedule that included volunteering; packing meals for Israelis in need at Colel Chabad, Israel\u2019s oldest charity, established in 1788; connecting with Israeli soldiers on the front lines; and working at a greenhouse in southern Israel, the region most affected by the current war.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\"TeenA group of 25 Jewish teens toured Poland and Israel to learn about Jewish history and traditions, as well as past and present antisemitism, to help combat future bigotry, July 9-23, 2024. Photo by Isaac Mintz.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis trip hasn\u2019t changed my perspective on my Jewish heritage, it\u2019s only strengthened what I already knew. I saw where my great-uncles and aunts suffered in Auschwitz, and their memorial plaques in Yad Vashem,\u201d said Goldberg.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the destruction caused by our current enemies,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd yet I stand here with my new brothers, proudly in Israel, because the Jewish people and goodness will always prevail. Am Yisrael Chai.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"TeenA group of 25 Jewish teens toured Poland and Israel to learn about Jewish history and traditions, as well as past and present antisemitism, to help combat future bigotry, July 9-23, 2024. Photo by Isaac Mintz.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\"TeenA group of 25 Jewish teens toured Poland and Israel to learn about Jewish history and traditions, as well as past and present antisemitism, to help combat future bigotry, July 9-23, 2024. Photo by Isaac Mintz.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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