Israel on our minds-Workshop 11 Cohort 18!

This workshop was the second in a series of workshops planned by the Dillers themselves. We started off this weeks workshop with our usual Oy and Joy. The one difference was that Gabi wasn’t able to join us for the day. In her place was our wonderful Diller intern Ariel. We then transitioned into our Winter Israel Experience committees and had some time to work on the days we have been planning.
After that, we had a guest speaker come and talk to us about a program called Garin Tzabar. This program is intended to give Jews around the world who want to join the Israeli army a group of similar people (also joining the army) who they can get to know before and during their army experience.
Following the presentation, we took a field trip to the lawn bowling courts outside of the ferry building and played a game of candy dodgeball. In addition to the game being a fun and interactive activity, the game also taught us about how Jews throughout time have tried to stop conflicts and help others. Special Dillers also known as the “Jews” were tasked with trying to gather the candy so that others would stop fighting. They were also able to heal their teammates who had been hit by candies thrown from the other team.

Once we got back to the conference room, we had a presentation from our second guest speaker. He started off by asking us what we thought of him. Without knowing anything about him, we were supposed to come up with theories as to who he was, where he came from and why he was with us that day. We deducted a fair amount about him, but after we had guessed as much as we could, he revealed to us that he was was an advisor to the board of the JCF. He gives suggestions as to where the JCF should spend its money in Israel. He then talked to us about some interesting community service opportunities we could partake in during our trip to the upper Galilee.

We then took our break and returned to work on our Moshe of the day plans. We concluded the day with our feedback session and for the first meeting in a very long time, we ended five minutes early.