by Habonim Dror | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog
A Boger of Habonim Dror, Benjy Goldstone, went to the vigil for the victims of the Pittsburgh Massacre on the 31st of October 2018. You can read below his inspiring speech. Hello, my name is Benjy. I’m a first-year student at Nottingham Trent University and am a...
by Habodror | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog
The events of the Holocaust clearly exposes dehumanisation on both sides in its purest sense, that of the Nazis and of the Jews. Whether it is subconscious or not, today we as humans dehumanise the Nazis as if they weren’t themselves part of the same human race....
by Shnat Blog | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog, Shnat, Uncategorized
It’s one week in, and Shnat Club 7 are already taking to kibbutz life like a butternut squash to a roasting tin. We’ve eaten more vegetables in the past week than Daniel Birtles, the Vegan guru himself, has had in the last 2 years. When we aren’t being shushed by...
by Habonim Dror | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog
This coming week’s parsha is VaYikra (“and He called”) and is the first parsha of Leviticus. The parsha lays out the reasons one must make a sacrifice (i.e. for peace and sins) but the one most interesting to me the laws of “guilt offerings”. These are offerings that...
by Habonim Dror | Mar 11, 2016 | Blog
The past week’s parsha is Pekudei and is the final parsha of the Book of Exodus. This week’s parsha spends a lot of time acting as a manual. It is not a manual for how we should live our lives but rather how we should go about building the Tabernacle and the Tent of...
by Habonim Dror | Feb 5, 2016 | Blog
This week’s parsha is Mishpatim and consists of 53 mitzvot, the promise of the Land of Israel to the Israelites and Moses ascending Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights. The parsha details God laying down the law to his children many of them specific, archaic and...
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