In order to commemorate Tisha B'Av, we spent our day looking at memory and how collective Jewish memory is created. Many members of the cohort fasted, so we made sure all activities were indoors at the community center. After discussing collective Jewish memory, we were lucky enough to have heard from Andrew Lustig. Andrew is a world-renowned spoken word poet originally from New York. After sharing some of his pieces with us, Andrew lead a writing workshop in which we created short poems about our personal definitions of love. Noam, Paul, Omer, Jamie, and Ali then lead us in a reflective activity in which we all wrote notes to each other expressing what we like about each other. After breaking the fast, we spent time meeting the teens of Yerucham at Warehouse 52, the local hang out spot for Yerucham teens. Overall, it was a great day and we cant wait for tomorrow (especially since we will be celebrating Lexi's birthday!)!!
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