Bnei Akiva offers students Brazil trip

British Bnei Akiva gap year students are to be offered the opportunity to work with Jewish communities in Brazil for the first time.

BA’s Hachshara programme, which prepares students for leadership roles, plans to send trainees to help run youth activities in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Around 30 participants are expected to spend a fortnight in Brazil, probably at the end of next year’s programme in June 2011.

There are around 96,000 Jews in the South American country.

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UJIA Super Sunday

The phone lines were hot in London and Manchester as over 100 volunteers were on call for UJIA’s Super Sunday, raising £122,000 for projects at home and in Israel. Youth movement members from Bnei Akiva, FZY and Habonim were among the volunteers.

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Legacy of bomb victim

The brother of Yoni Jesner, the British student killed in a suicide bombing in Israel seven years ago, was among the speakers at an educational evening in Yoni’s memory at the BA headquarters in Temple Fortune.

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