Birkat Chaverim
These sukkot mini cupcake wrappers have a story behind them. Do you remember Hurricane Harvey? It seems so long ago to those not affected and given the latest natural disasters happening now. However, last year the Houston Jewish community was hard hit. In addition to donating funds to the local community, Bnei Akiva of North America wanted to send them ...
Recently my friend David Curwin shared this post about David Daube on facebook and I felt that given Birkat Chaverim's connection to Bnei Akiva, and informal education, it was appropriate to share here. I thought David's commemorating David Daube was thoughtful as well as interesting to those who grew up in Bnei Akiva as well as a note to how educators ...
As part of this years Mitzvot Unplugged, I wanted to talk about a classic method of teaching kids mitzvot creatively, the Jewish youth group. As you may know, Birkat Chaverim was started to support Bnei Akiva of North America through the sale of birkonim for family celebrations. I grew up in Bnei Akiva and was also a madricha or counsellor. I also atte ...
I made a small change to how the Bnei Akiva benchers are listed on the website. Up until now the store had an additional option in the order options to order a "Custom Order." Our intention there was that if someone did not want to use some of the existing designated designs or provide their own artwork, they could choose a custom designed logo option f ...
This post is intended as a resource for people who are interested in promoting the Bnei Akiva bencher project. The Bnei Akiva Bencher project is a way for local Bnei Akiva Glilim to fundraise when their members have smachot. I am including links in this post to some materials that will be useful towards this purpose. Feel free to be in touch if you need ...
In addition to the bencher project, here is yet another way to help Bnei Akiva avoid financial ruin and support Bnei Akiva international programs (if you've missed my previous post on this subject and therefore the reference, see "Financial Ruin" and the Bnei Akiva Bencher project.) In honor of Bnei Akiva's 80th anniversary, Bnei Akiva is partnering wit ...