Hadracha

Hadracha is the culmination of the TY experience, educating and training our campers to become tomorrow’s leaders and activists, today. Hadracha aims to develop campers’ leadership skills, such as public speaking, marketing, and programming, and provides a more sophisticated understanding of social responsibility and principled leadership. Campers are pushed to prioritize today’s most pressing issues, organize around one issue of importance, and design an effective plan of action to achieve social change. The highlight of Hadracha is Day on the Hill, a three-day trip to Washington, DC, that provides campers with the unique opportunity to advance their issue through participation in the American political process. Campers will engage members of the US Congress and meet with prominent NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) relevant to their groups’ issues.

You are…

• Entering 11^th grade in Fall 2012
• Interested in leadership and/or activism
• Excited to make friends from around the US, Israel and the world
• Interested in sharing new experiences with other Jewish teens
• Looking forward to being a part of an exciting all-teen community

You will…

• Build lifelong friendships with Jewish teens from diverse backgrounds
• Enjoy daily athletic, creative, aquatic and recreational activities
• Develop and hone skills, crafts and hobbies based on your personal interest
• Experience the beauty of celebrating Shabbat as a community
• Explore a wide spectrum of Jewish rituals and practice
• Create a lifelong connection with Israel and its people
• Form a tikun team around a pressing social action issue, learn about your issue from inspired and educated madrichim and form a plan of action to raise awareness and affect change within and beyond camp
• Participate in intensive studio workshops, focused on gaining specific sets of leadership skills
• Learn about the basic ideas and questions that underlie effective Jewish leadership
• Gain insights and skills directly from Young Judaea alumni who are leaders in their fields
• Lead the rest of camp as Maccabia (Color War) Captains and by planning and running the final Shabbat of the summer
• Live, eat and sleep in intimate Machaneh Bet (Bet Camp) where campers help run the daily life of camp
• Experience an overnight in GOE (Gimmel Outdoor Experience)
• Earn a Certificate of Completion from Tel Yehudah’s Hadracha Leadership and Activism Institute
• Be eligible to participate in one of the Hadracha Plus programs at a Young Judaea regional camp during the second session

On our Day on the Hill Trip to Washington, DC, you will…

• Learn from the leading advocacy and non-governmental organizations related to your issue
• Enlist members of the US Congress to your cause
• Hear from Young Judaea alumni involved in all levels of the political process in Washington DC
• Consult with leading media members and journalists to fine tune your group’s publicity and media plan
• Enjoy the many sites, museums and cultural highlights and institutions of Washington DC!
• Spend three days in our nation’s capital and two nights in a university dormitory