NESTO - Native English Speakin Teen Olim
With pouring rain outside and evil wind, Junior NESTO celebrated Tu Bishvat by having a traditional Tu Bishvat Seder. The Seder was an interactive one. Each chanich, at his turn, read a different paragraph out loud and after every reading there was an activity involved. Whether it was writing an "ode to a date", or answering riddles, both the madrichim and chanichim had a great time.

Senior NESTO enjoyed playing "captions". Each chanich had to do all 10 captions. The one who named the strange caption most originally, and had the acceptance of the rest of the partici- pants received a sticker on his fore- head. Whoever's fore- head was covered the most was declared the winner. The winner received the glorious "imagination card". We all know who you are...

Most importantly...we would like to send a huge MAZAL TOV to Chave & Shmuel; NESTO baby has arrived! It is a girl!Her name is Hadas - Congratulations!!!

The junior NESTO cookbook has been completed. It is filled with the chanichim's recipes and jokes. You must own it! It costs only 20NIS and all proceeds go to charity. Help Jr. NESTO do chessed. That's all from us,Shabbat Shalom

The Israel Center's youth program for Anglo-Israelis • tel. 566-7787 ext. 250 • fax: 561-7432 • chaveabrahams@hotmail.com • Chaim Pelzner, Director, Chave Herschberg, Coordinator, Mimi Edel, Bat Sherut, NESTO is partially funded by the Jewish Agency for Israel

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