Darkaynu

Israel is for Everyone

Ohr Torah Stone Gap-Year Program Will Participate at Frisch Israel Night By JLNJ Staff | November 14, 2019 With gap-year program recruitment season launching in just a few short weeks, Ohr Torah Stone’s (OTS) Elaine and Norm Brodsky Darkaynu Programs,

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Darkaynu girls

Why I’m excited for Israel Night

Why I’m excited for Israel Night Avi Ganz | The Times Of Israel | 13/11/19 It’s mid-November.  College application season.  High school seniors everywhere are scrambling to get paperwork together, essays written, fees paid, and, most of all, target schools

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Spending the Year in Israel – Our Way

Spending the Year in Israel – Our Way Arutz 7 News | 30 October, 2019 On Monday, October 28th, this year’s cohort of the Elaine and Norm Brodsky Darkaynu Programs arrived at Ben Gurion airport. The chaperoned group was greeted

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ELana and Nachum Segal

Darkaynu’s Elana Goldscheider on NSN

Nachum Segal welcomed Elana Goldscheider, founding director of Ohr Torah Stone’s Elaine and Norm Brodsky Darkaynu Programs for young adults with special needs. “Everyone should have a chance to be able to come to Israel….all of a sudden our students

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Best Day Ever

Best Day Ever  The Elaine and Norm Brodsky Darkaynu Program enables students with special needs to spend a year in Israel in a unique ‘sidestreamed’ environment that enables them to learn, volunteer, work and experience everything Israel has to offer, providing

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The Pesach Seder: A Paradigm of Inclusion

The Pesach Seder: A Paradigm of Inclusion Avi Ganz | The Times Of Israel | 17/04/19 One of the more well-known passages in the Passover Haggadah speaks of the ‘Four Sons’, in reference to whom, the Torah enjoins us to engage with

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Tehila Chasen reading megilla

Learning Together, Reading Megilla Together

“Learning Together, Reading Megilla Together” by Reut Hadar | 22/3/2019 Women’s readings of Megillat Esther on Purim have become commonplace over the years, but this reading is especially unique. Each year, all of the various programs at Ohr Torah Stone’s

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Ariel and Eitan Wernick 2018

What Is Inclusion?

What is inclusion? Avi Ganz | The Times Of Israel | 04/03/19 “Do you know the joy of friendship, of caring and of love? Somehow I get the feeling that you do. Then we are not so different, we are

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Darkaynu marathon 2018

TEAM DARKAYNU 2019

Friday. March 15th, 2019. JERUSALEM. Run. With. Us. Team Darkaynu is getting ready for another fantastic marathon with more than 30,000 others! The event itself is reason enough to participate as it is such an inclusive event representing so much

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TITLE In a modest apartment in the town of Alon Shvut outside of Jerusalem, a group of young men are enjoying the experience of living together in ways many thought impossible just a few years ago. The four men all

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photo of Darkaynu and Finkle girls in beit midrash

Darkaynu – This is Our Way

Darkaynu – This is Our Way The blessed initiatives bringing young Jews from the Diaspora to a year of learning in Israel left young women and men with special needs behind. The Darkaynu programs succeed in makeing the Jewish and

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Darkaynu

A Thousand Words – November 15, 2021

Once a week, students in the Elaine and Norm Brodsky Darkaynu Program perform chessed in a variety of frameworks within the community – volunteer work which is an important value to instill in all students, but especially empowering for these

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