The Mazkirut, Netzer South Africas’ National Management body met in Durban over the June and July holidays to discuss many important things. We have officially decided on this years camp name, theme and Hanhallah – Camp Committee. Over the four days we had many discussions about upcoming plans and events for Netzer South Africa as …
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Netzer Recap: Over these past few months Netzer has held amazing, fun filled weekly events: We’ve had a fabulous assortment of Shabbat Madness activities, Tu B’Shvat Seder, Purim Parties, hosted a leadership seminar and “Survivor Pesach” day. We remembered Yom HaZikaron with Bet David, built a bonfire in Beit Emanuel on Lag B’omer, Stayed up …
The Netzer Song – South African Version
Cape Town got together on their Mini Machaneh and sang the Netzer Song so that NFTY (The American branch of Netzer) could learn it and teach it on their camps this Summer.
Netzer Olami: “Check out this AMAZING video of Netzer South-Africa singing the “Netzer-Song” in Hebrew, English and Afrikans!
They dedicated the song to NFTY, who are going to be running a great peula on Netzer Olami this summer at Camp Kutz, their Leadership training camp!”
Shavuot Sleepover – 10 May 2013 Shavuot is a time for learning! But before we could learn we had a Ma’amad, and celerated the shabbat with some fast talking (Well as fast as one could with a mouth full of ice cream..) We also ate delicious Pizza and watched a Movie and hung out with our …
Hadracha (Leadership) Seminar – 3 March 2013 The eager Keshetnicks arrived on Friday afternoon excited at the prospect of learning all about being a Maddie at Netzer. You could see the glow in their eyes as they absorbed all the brand new information, eagerly jotting down tips and tricks in their note books. Together we …
Netzer Movie Night – 8 June 2013 The night was chilly and a bit windy but Netzer Gauteng was determined to curl up with some deliciously warm popcorn and watch a fantastic movie. For the adults, we showed The Chosen, a heart warming tale of two boys in New York in 1944 who are struggling …
January of 2012 was the longest month of my entire life. For the most part, I spent my days with friends or reading books on the couch, enjoying the last relaxing moments before departing on a whirlwind adventure into the great unknown. It felt as though the day would never come, but when it did, …
Today Kliptown, Tomorrow the World. By: Kathryn Henning Over the past few months, the Netzer Madrichim have been volunteering in Kliptown, Soweto, as a part of Netzers Ideology of Tikkun Olam (Repairing the world). Netzer has five main pillars of ideology that we base many of our activities around. A youth movement is nothing without …
“Let me walk oh let me walk, to the place that my heart loves. Open my heart to love the place that my feet take me to.” For the past year, these words have been my anthem. I have used them to guide me in the decisions that I have made. I think that on some level, …
‘Facebook’; ‘Twitter’ ; ‘google +’;‘bbm’ and the like. It doesn’t take a Hollywood blockbuster to dictate the social milieu today’s youth generation is networking in. Young people today are steadily interacting on a virtual level. The desire for exclusivity, intimacy and keeping the personal, personal are replaced by a need to get one’s individual ‘status’ …