Hineni Learning Center at Adat Chaverim

🕎🎁🎉 Our Hanukkah Shop is now open!

Get your t-shirts and sweatshirts before they're gone!

Shop closes on December 31!
Once these designs are gone, they're gone forever!

https://www.zazzle.com/collections/hanukkah-119729973862948792

Shabbat Shalom!

Remember, there is no HLC on Sunday. We will see you on September 7!

Opening Day is August 17!

Register now!

rsformsdocs - Adat Chaverim

Shalom from Israel! I am so happy to be back in Eretz Yisrael, even if it is only for a few days. Even though I only arrived last night, I already have things to share. The first is this picture. As I went to get my luggage, even before I went through customs, the faces of the hostages meet me, reminding me this is a different place since the last time I was here.

The second is more of a story. I stayed with friends last night who I make sure to see every time I am in Israel. They are more like family. Anyway, they have four kids, one of their sons, since October 7, had a precious baby boy. He is doing army service in Gaza and was able to come home for both the birth and the bris. The juxtaposition of him fighting in Gaza, yet the IDF allowed to come home for this momentous event in his life struck me.
His father spent a lot of his early army service as a spy and went back to do reserve duty for a month or so following the October 7 attack to help with intelligence. He shared a few things I'd like to share with you now:
1. They found data bases that said there are over 150,000 members of Hamas in Gaza alone. All of them are not fighters, but many of them keep ammunitions and such in their homes for the fight.
2. I don't think we can truly grasp the amount or complexity of the tunnels. There is an entrance every third or fourth house.
3. His primary job during his reserve service was keeping Palestinian civilians safe. He had to figure out where they are, and work around them, even at the expense of IDF lives. Which made me think how that complicates data. When you refer to number one (above) and remember that when Hamas puts out their numbers - they include their people as well, It is hard to judge what those numbers really mean. It also makes me wonder how and why so many civilian Palestinians are still dying.
4. The number of Palestinian deaths bothers my friends as well. And yet they worry daily for their son's life.
And I'll leave you with a fun fact! I saw Rabbi Adam at Ben Gurion Airport!
L'Shalom
Valerie Klein

It's going to be a great day!!!

And it’s in! Thank you Scott Golub and Robyn LaCour for helping make this Tu’bishvat so special!!