For Erev Shabbat, we enjoyed services at the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam. Some of us held alternative services at the park. Regardless of choice, everyone had a reflective final Shabbat. We all regrouped at Chabad for dinner and met people from around the world. On Saturday, we walked around the city and enjoyed lunch at [...]
Amsterdam
The past few days we have been on the move! On Thursday morning, we woke up for our last French breakfast at our hotel. We will certainly miss those croissants and crepes! We loaded the bus and began making our way to Bruges, Belgium. In Bruges, we attended the Friet Museum, which is a museum [...]
Friday, July 15 Friday was our last day in Belgium and it began with an early wake up and a rather long bus ride to a transit camp from World War II called Fort Breendok. Once at the camp we went on a guided tour of it. When we first walked in the temperature was [...]
We started the weekend on Friday by waking up in Belgium! We spent the morning visiting a very somber place, Fort Breendonk, a deportation camp for Belgium Jews. That was a very meaningful experience for the teens as we were all able to connect to our past and learn about a very important piece of [...]