Diller Teen Fellows

Diller teen fellows, one of our partnership flagship projects - a year long leadership program for 11th graders! The Diller teens from Baltimore leave tonight after 3 intensely busy weeks in Israel. They have toured and volunteered, they have worked and played, and laughed and cried. This last week they spent in Ashkelon, home-hosted by their Ashkelon Diller partners, working in the Ashkelon community.

climbing the snake path up to Masada at dawn

Welcome dinner

Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center

Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center

Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center

Fun time at the pool and the beach

Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center

Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center

Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center

Volunteering at the Teen  Center

Completed seating area built by the Diller teens

Final Circle at the Retreat

Ashkelon Dillers are on their way to Baltimore

The North American Seminar is one of the highlights of the Diller Teen Fellowship year long leadership program

.These photos show this years Diller group saying goodbye to their parents and boarding the bus for Ben Gurion airport. They will be spending 10 days in Baltimore, staying in the homes of their Baltimore partners, connecting with people and volunteering in the Baltimore community, seeing the sights, learning, and broadening their minds and horizons.

Parting from their families - hugs, tears and much excitement

 Uriel Ezra, 2010-2011 Ashkelon Coordinator

 Last years Diller teens wave goodbye to the bus

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Diller Teen Fellows 2010 - 2011

After the first few meetings at the Teen Center, a Shabbat weekend away from home, a meeting with the parents, and matching of the Ashkelon teens with their Baltimore partners, Diller 2010-2011 is well and truly on the way!

MEET the Ashkelon Team!

Left to right: Denny, Uriel, Itay & Adaya

Shabbaton at Kibbutz Galon

ODT and fun at Galon

Swearing in Ceremony at the Beach

Diller Teen Fellows Summer 2010 - volunteering in the community

Volunteering at Beit Canada new immigrant absorption center

Volunteering at Burton community center with day campers

Helping the Burton day-camper kids make cards in English for their parents

Drum circle at Meitar, with darbookas

Diller Teen Fellows Summer 2010 -1

The Baltimore Diller Teens are in Israel for 3 weeks.

They are touring, visiting their sister city Ashkelon to stay with their Israeli teen partners, volunteering in the community and getting to know Ashkelon, and then participating in the Youth congress at Givat Haviva.

Also read Megan's day-to-day blog HERE

and check out more photos HERE

Dillers from Baltimore and from Ashkelon reunited!

Coordinators Reunited too !

Noa and Megan

Time for Mini- Gadna training!!!

FUN: Ashkelon's BarCochba Beach

Ashkelon Diller teens are Home!

Ashkelon's Diller CSI Teens were in Baltimore just before Passover, to meet their Baltimore partners, learn about The Associated, and volunteer in the community. The visit was one of the highlights of the year-long teen leadership program led in Ashkelon by Noa Nagar-HaLevy and in Baltimore by Leah Berry & Megan Goldsmith. The Ashkelon teens are looking forward to hosting their Baltimore counterparts in Ashkelon this summer. Below, a small taste .....
First stop - Battery Park, New York


Leah, Noa & Megan


Volunteering at Kayam Farm


Diller teens from Baltimore and Ashkelon connect!

Volunteering at Falstaff Elementary

Learning about The ASSOCIATED, with our fabulous Shinshinim, Hadar & Natan


Having fun with the kids who will be on the Family Mission in Dec 2010


Leading a session with Rambam pupils


Lunch with community leaders at THE ASSOCIATED


A day in Washington DC - the only rainy day of the visit.

Volunteering at Carmelo Anthony


A Baltimore tree asks for, and gets, a hug

Signing each other's T-shirts before saying farewell


Host families and teens at final dinner at the Sholk's home