Yona Leibowitz is from Toronto and attended Tiferes Bais Yaakov followed by an amazing year and a half at Michlala. She is currently pursuing a business degree at SUNY Empire State College. This is her second summer on Michlelet and first as a madricha. Yona’s chaburah is called “Changing the game of life through tefillah” and it connects games to different parts of tefillah. For example, connecting the game of concentration to kavanah and broken telephone to Shema. Yona’s chaburah helps give the girls a better understanding of the words of tefillah so that they can have a more meaningful davening.
The amazing girls in the chaburah are Perri (TAG), Tamar (Hadar), Liana (Naaleh), Chanie (TAG), and Eliana (Naaleh).
If you could travel to any place in the world other than Israel where would it be and why?
Chanie: Italy because it is truly the world’s most beautiful country. It flaunts the most inspiring cultural treasures and magnificent scenery, which you cannot find anywhere in the world. Venice, Florence and Rome with their diverse architecture, Tuscany with its rolling hills, vineyards and snow-peaked mountains.
Liana: Dubai because I heard it’s stunning and it would be cool to visit a different type of place. It would be so nice to see Hashems beautiful world.
Perri: The place I would want to travel to is the Maldives because I’ve seen pictures of how pretty it is and how the water is so clear and it looks so calming. I would love to see how beautiful Hashem has made this world in a place i’ve never been to.
Eliana: Hawaii since i would love to learn about the different cultures there. I also would love to see volcanoes arupt and just to visit new places
Tamar: The place I would want to travel to is probably Switzerland because of how pretty it is and how you can so clearly see that everything there is from Hashem. I also think it’s be fun to ski there.
