First time girls from Melbourne attend Chof Beis Shvat High School Program

Girls at the High School Program – Illustration Photo

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Many months ago some wonderful tenth graders in Melbourne, Australia took upon themselves the task of organizing a trip to New York to attend the annual Chof Beis Shvat high school program.

They established Achos HaT’mim , and inspired the whole Beth Rivkah high school to increase in their learning, avodas haT’filah and Ahavas Yisroel through various programs including before school shiurim, farbrengens, mivtzoim as well as taking on efforts for each one to improve in all aspects of behavior befitting a Bas Chabad.

In order to be eligible to enter the goral to be zoche to win a trip to New York, each girl had to earn 770 points per week. In addition they needed to fund raise and convince parents and the school as to the tremendous impact this trip would have on, not only the school, but the whole community. Besides the financial cost of the trip, chof beis shvat takes place at the very end of the summer vacation in Australia, meaning the girls would return after school would be starting.

During summer camp a few weeks ago , the director of Chabad Youth, Rabbi Moshe Kahn, indeed felt the great effect these girls would have on their return to Melbourne and he undertook to help in partially sponsoring the trip. In return 4 girls agreed to work as shluchos for Chabad Youth through running various hafotza activities such as shabbos mornings and after school programs.

Boruch Hashem 8 girls from Melbourne, who all undertook the hachona program with utmost dedication and effort, were able to participate in the high school program in New York. We are confident they will benefit from the tremendous achdus and atmosphere and the experience of being with 1600 other girls from all over the world. In turn they will bring back all they have seen and learnt to inspire their friends, family and entire community.

18 Comments

  • just to let you know

    This isn’t Melbourne school!! It’s Beth Rivkah Montreal…. The article might be correct, but the picture doesn’t match it.

  • A. Cousins in Crown Heights.

    Go Rifkah’le Zirkind!!!

    Good to see you and we love you!!!

  • Leah

    You guys are AMAZING!! You worked so hard on it and actually got there. Im so proud of you!!! Love you guys

  • nechama heber and chaya begun

    welcome to n.y shaina barber! we luv you and are so o o proud of you!!!!!!

  • Nechama-ex melbournite

    Wow!!!
    I’m so happy to see how far Beth Rivkah has come since my days.

  • Australian

    thank you to Mushky Gordon and Kerin Saks-Davis for the idea and the organizing of the entire program both in the Hachones in Australia and the trip to the Rebbe

  • PROUD PERSON

    GO BETHRIVKAH MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!!
    YOU DID IT! YOU GOT THERE! GOOD ON YOU!!!

  • there is hope!

    cute that 2 of those girls came to our class for the day.achos hatmim is unbelieveble!it changes girls lives all over the world.there was an internatinal a”ht convention in tornto which was amzing and inspiring.so yup there are still many very good,chassidish girls out there!

  • A member of Anash in Melbourne

    We are very proud of each of the girls who were involved in the programme. We hope the girls are suceessful in their hashpaah on all their friends and all Melbourne residents will benifit.

  • Yossi Gordon

    Thanks to Mushkie Gordon and Chaya Herbst for all their hard work in organising this peula

  • Ohel Chana Student...

    Sarah Leah, this program was seriously amazing!! We’re soooo proud of your hard work n’ all the effort you put into it.. Keep up the good work!!

  • Illustration Photo

    To “Just to let you know”:

    Under the picture are two very important words: Illustration Photo.

    That means that the picture isn’t of the actual article, but goes with the theme.

  • chaya willy

    mushky berk!!!!!!!
    omg ur on crownheights.info just like me!!!!!!
    i miss ya soooo much!
    mazal tov, post some pix…
    miss ya
    luv chaya willy