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latest from our travels

A lot has happened since our final Shabbat. As we were wrapping up the trip, there were times both good and bad but all defining to our experience. While we ended our Shabbat in Albufeira, we continued our adventure in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.… Continue reading

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to relax and reflect. Sometimes it feels like in order to succeed in the world, you have to constantly be going and forget relaxing. Shabbat, of course, is meant to be the opposite of that, being… Continue reading

IntroductionIn the past three days we have crossed multiple borders without feeling like we crossed anything. Of course, going from Portugal to Spain is all Euro-zoned, so that’s fine, but recent events made crossing into the UK post-Brexit as easy as taking a step (read… Continue reading

Hello Parents, Friends, Camp Havaya Staff, and other people related to members of the Havaya Sportugbraltar trip, I am excited to bring you the Havaya Sportubraltar Granada edition. This one will be shorter, recapping the sites we visited, the experience watching España win the World… Continue reading

Hello Parents, Friends, Camp Havaya Staff, and other people related to members of the Havaya Sportugbraltar trip, It’s Sylvia (yes, I wrote all the recaps so far) back for the third time telling you everything about the trip. This one got kind of long, so… Continue reading

A note for our friends at Camp Havaya… The Europe Trip is currently celebrating our first Shabbat in Córdoba, Spain. As you continue through your own Shabbat celebrations in the Poconos, we wanted to update you on our trip with some words from our trip… Continue reading

We started off the morning with breakfast in the hotel with some eggs, fruit, and pastries. Then we loaded onto the bus and headed to the Real Madrid stadium for a nice tour. During the tour, we learned about the history of the stadium and… Continue reading

After a long flight where NOBODY clapped when the plane landed, we arrived to Madrid! We met our tour guide Mark (who is Israeli) and our security guard who would soon become an icon. Then we briefly stepped into the hot Madrid sun before going… Continue reading

After almost three years, we finally have a group of teens traveling overseas! Sure, it’s not Israel … but two weeks in Europe isn’t too shabby. We can’t wait to share their adventures…. Continue reading

Another hot morning in the desert started with us saying goodbye to Kibbutz Keturah and loading up the bus. Our first stop was at an agricultural research center, which focused on ways to farm in the desert. We got to play in their interactive museum… Continue reading