Dear Internet, I am writing you this letter to inform you that today I will be speaking at the TED event in San Francisco. I will be speaking around 7:30pm PST during the Pete Conrad Award speech. If you want to watch me live go to http://www.tedxsf.org. But you already knew that…being the Internet and [...]
Wow, its been a while since I wrote something here. Lets see… Since my last post I have won 3rd place in the Pete Conrad spirit of innovation award and went to Atlanta for the FIRST robotics championships. The Conrad award was given out at the Conrad foundation’s innovation submit a few weeks ago. The [...]
Today a random teacher talked about Obama’s address yesterday. He said that it was the first time that he heard a president talk about education in the past 8 years. That is not true, one of Bush’s major issues was education, to say something like that shows complete ignorance. Also at one point a kid [...]
If I were an active reader of this blog (which I am) then I would really want to take a look at http://www.conradawards.org/mast around 1pm PST tomorrow (which I will).
Last night I got back from the AIPAC high school summit. I went with 7 other kids from Milken, 7 out of the 8 (me included) went on TIF. Over all it was a fun experience, I liked spending time with people that I have not spent time with since Israel and I also really [...]
Every morning I wake up to the same sound of my alarm clock wrenching from my sleep. The same thing happened this morning, and after two unsuccessful attempts at going back to sleep, I walked out of my room and brushed my teeth. Then I went back to my room took off the clothes that [...]
Wordle is this awsome website that I stumbled upon today via “Wired“. With it you can make word clouds of websites and text. It really neat, here is a wordle of naterocks.com (this site).
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Today I went to school and saw people who I have not seen for 4 months. It was really nice to see how people have changed and grown. I also got my yearbook and noticed that the TIF page and the page about the 10th grade shabbaton had the same descriptions that last year’s did [...]
Yes, I am back home. But I can’t sleep so I have decided to write about what I did during my last few days in Israel. Last week I heard from this person from an organization called the David project. He talked to us about how to defend Israel in public. He showed us examples of [...]
Last night I went to a play at the נא לגעת (English: Nalaga’at, Lit: Please Touch) center in Tel Aviv. The play was entitled “Not by Bread Alone”, it started out in a bakery and showed people baking bread, then they put the bread into the oven and while the bread is baking we see the dreams of [...]
Notice about this post: This post contains many common terms that may make this blog appear higher than it normally would on certain search engines. If this is your fist time visiting this blog then please keep in mind that this is not a political blog and as a result please keep an open mind [...]
Yesterday I went to the Weitzman and the Israeli Maritime college. It was supposed be a day themed around Israeli science. However it really wasn’t, the stuff we did at the Weizmann we could have seen at any normal science museum. The stuff we saw at the Maritime college was really cool, but it was [...]
Last week we went in to the desert to see one of the main things in the Zionist dream. Making the desert bloom. We left campus on Wednesday and went to this place called Revivim. Revivim is an really old kibbutz that was setup as an experiment to see if Jews could live in the [...]
Last Thursday was יום העצמאות(Israel’s independence day). It was a lot of fun, at night I went to a concert the the park and heard lots of bands play (the park was really crowded, I didn’t know that Hod Ha’Sharon was that big), the next day I went to the beach and went swimming and [...]
Last week, Wednesday was יום הזכרון לחללי מערכות ישראל ונפגעי פעולות האיבה (day of remembrance for the soldiers that have fallen and the fallen victims of terror). It was the most meaningful day that I spent in Israel so far. The thing with Yom Ha’ Zikron is that pretty much everyone in Israel is effected, [...]
Normally people on Israel Trips go on this thing called yam (sea) el(to) yam(sea). They start at one side of Israel and touch the sea there, then they hike to the other side of Israel and touch the sea there. It normally takes 4 days and it is a lot of fun. However our group got [...]
During the past 3 days I was hiking and camping, I also went to the dress rehearsal for the official independence ceremony of the state. Tonight I went to the ceremony for the day of remembrance that was put on by the city of Hod Ha’ Sharon (where I have been living for the past [...]
One long blast to remember the 6 million who were murdered A movie of the Siren that sounds every year in Israel on Yom Ha’ Shoah in memory of those who died in the holocaust. This is an HD video (go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQNXz… then make it play in full screen) and was filmed in Hod [...]
Today was יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה (in English: Yom Ha’Zekron La’Shoah Veh La’Gevurah, lit: day for the remembrance of the destruction and the heroism, aka: holocaust remembrance day). It was a day of mixed emotions for me. I was kind of happy to be back in Israel, but it was also really sad because I kept thinking of [...]
Today at around 2pm I landed safely in Israel.
Today I am going back to the US for 2 weeks. After Passover break I will be coming back to Israel for the rest of the program. (about 1+ months)
Hashev Ha-Mefakedet (listen commander), that is what I had to say when I wanted to ask an adult something last week. Where was I you ask? Well, I was at Gadna, Gadna is a program run by the IDF for Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora to encourage Jews to join the army. There are [...]
Are you wondering where I will be this week??!?!?!!!?!?? Well, I will be at gadna. (contrary to what the link says gadna is also for Israelis) Hopeful it’ll be fun. (I get back on Thursday)
All right so you may have (or have not) noticed that it has been sometime since I made a post here. This is mainly due to me not wanting to fail my core test and as a result I studied way too much for it. So any ways, I have decided to give you day by [...]