Where Are You Posting From Now?

[Dan]

770, Kfar Chabad

[Ly18]

How do you kill time on a 12h day flight?

Sleep off that double Purim hangover

[lcm]

Piccadilly line

[Dan]

Tzomet Shuva

[Dan]

Re'im forest

[tavster]

Are you stopping by Beeri?

[Dan]

Are you stopping by Beeri?

Not on Chabad Katamon's itinerary.

[Dan]

Mishkan Shalom Synagogue, Sderot

[Dan]

Are you stopping by Beeri?

Got an invitation there after posting part 1 of the Otef Aza mission on Instagram stories.
Should I go? Yesterday was heavy. Couldn't sleep last night. Will going there add anything to what we saw? Do most locals even want that?

[tavster]

Got an invitation there after posting part 1 of the Otef Aza mission on Instagram stories.
Should I go? Yesterday was heavy. Couldn't sleep last night. Will going there add anything to what we saw?

It's definitely heavy as well.
I don't think it makes sense to go back just for that.
You can combine with volunteering in the area

Do most locals even want that?

It's controversial.
Many feel that this shouldn't turn into a circus.
At Beeri there are signs asking visitors to take pictures in order to show the world / not forget etc. But this is likely more aimed for foreign media than for a Jewish audience that doesn't need additional proof of what happened IMHO

[Yehuda57]

It's controversial.
Many feel that this shouldn't turn into a circus.
At Beeri there are signs asking visitors to take pictures in order to show the world / not forget etc. But this is likely more aimed for foreign media than for a Jewish audience that doesn't need additional proof of what happened IMHO

From what I've heard, this is accurate, there are differing views. I would only add that a relative who went with a group was in Kfar Azah, and they were obviously sickened to the core. In their shock and grief they began to sing songs like Acheinu and Ani Maamin, but that evolved into a lively Am Yisrael Chai and soon they were dancing. Afterwards, my relative realized, "oh boy, how insensitive that we're dancing here right in front of someone who lost family and neighbors, who's home is burned...." He turned to the local and started apologizing, but the local responded, "We don't know what is inappropriate. We've never experienced such a thing before. We don't know how we're supposed to react. We're figuring it out the same way you are."

[yelped]

From what I've heard, this is accurate, there are differing views. I would only add that a relative who went with a group was in Kfar Azah, and they were obviously sickened to the core. In their shock and grief they began to sing songs like Acheinu and Ani Maamin, but that evolved into a lively Am Yisrael Chai and soon they were dancing. Afterwards, my relative realized, "oh boy, how insensitive that we're dancing here right in front of someone who lost family and neighbors, who's home is burned...." He turned to the local and started apologizing, but the local responded, "We don't know what is inappropriate. We've never experienced such a thing before. We don't know how we're supposed to react. We're figuring it out the same way you are."

[Dan]

Distributing tefilin, tzitzis, pushkas, neshek, at more at Zikim base.

[Dan]

Ugdat Aza base

[Dan]

Mishmar HaNegev base

[Dan]

Hostage square

[TzviR]

@Dan did you go by yourself?

[Dan]

@Dan did you go by yourself?

No

[Dan]

Ritzaliya

[Dan]

Are you stopping by Beeri?

In the end we skipped it. I don't know if that was the right or wrong decision, but our partner Kuti was happy with it.

דן היקר היה ממש מיוחד איתכם"

אמרתי ליונתן שהרגשתי שמה שאכפת לך זה המבצעים ושיהודים יקיימו מצוות בפועל ממש

לא חיפשת חוויות ודברים מרגשים

"משמח מאוד לראות את זה