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Game joined generations together |
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Young artists |
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Pictures of Art School artists |
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Sketch
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Parent's Chorus |
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Young Club "Alef Daag" |
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| Photo by Vladimir Semchuk |
One more camp, this time winter camp has finished its work. 47
families (122 people) spent 5 days off in sanatorium "Kazakhstan" -
one of the best and the most comfortable places in Almaty for children and adults
to rest. A swimming pool, gymnasium, special features of Jewish cuisine, all
this created the necessary prerequisites for a good rest and family health invigoration.
In addition 5 camp days gathered the incredible diversity of educational, sport
and art programs.
Let's try to remember what families did between 2 and 7 of January
2001.
Young artists studied in the art school managed by Eleonora Meerson.
Look at them! How their faces shine with joy! How colorful are their pictures!
And if in summer camp they took their first steps in familiarization
with "Jewish" theme, now they are trying to find the sense , grow
accustomed with Torah's characters. Classes of Golovina and Kats help them a
lot in it. According to oral Torah tradition, children listen to their teachers,
think and discuss what they have heard.
The completion phase is dramatization of what passed. On 3rd and
4th of January the themes of the Torah were "Birth of Moses", "Moses
and Egyptian", "Moses and Justice" and many others. These sketches
were done by children themselves and with the teacher's help.
Chorus of grandfathers, grandmothers and parents sang for their
children and grandchildren. They sang songs in Hebrew and Yiddish: hymn "Atikva",
"Ose Shalom", "Kine ma tov", "Lomer alem" and
"Tumbalalaika". There was a very interesting acquaintance evening.
Families were coming on stage one after another. A sheet of paper was presented
to every child, he/she torn it into pieces, using only one hand. According to
the quantity of the pieces, children had to say the best things about their
families and after that to perform a trick.
Roma Dotsenko, who torn a sheet of paper into 14 pieces, won this
competition. And when he did not have enough compliments for his family, the
public helped him…
The concert items were wonderful, and they helped families to bring
together. Thus, Nedlin, Boguslavskiy, Dubrov-Utegaliyev and Nazaraliyev families
united into Jewish Family Association (JFA) and every family performed its own
variation of "Hava nagilu".
Anna Belova (who is only 5) a participant of the Camp Program and
her companion client of Hesed, Boris Khmelnitskiy caught up the idea of community
interests of generations. After the concert, in the wings Boris Isaakovich confessed
that he took an active part in the concert program only because that girl inspired
him. Newly made duet performed chastooshki, and the young talented girl got
a title of Honored Artist of Hesed.
In summary some interesting statistics: the number of families-participants
of winter camp increased from 30 to 47 in comparison with summer camp. The number
of participants increased from 105 to 122. Children were divided into 4 age
groups. 5 children leaders and 9 volunteers helped Program managers from Jewish
Community Center in Almaty, Hesed Polina in organizing camp.
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