Tivnu Blog

This trip was quite an experience. The views were beautiful, and really made me feel the scale of the planet in a way I have never experienced.

Tivnu fosters a space where those feelings are met with care, celebration, and a sense of community. Birthdays in particular are a chance to bring a little piece of home into the Tivnu experience.

On the way to OMSI Hancock Field Station, the Tivnu cohort stopped at the Museum at Warm Springs

Come along with me on a fun Friday, and get a peek into what my everyday life is like!

Connections is a New York Times word game where players have to connect words into four groups of four. Over the past few weeks my roommate and I have been creating TIVnections, a Tivnu version of the popular NYT game.

This winter, Tivnu's 10th cohort traveled to Mt. Hood and built an igloo from the ground up. Watch the time lapse video and hear "We Built This Igloo"

Suffice it to say, we were immersed in a starkly different environment than we had been in just an hour before. The concept of immersion is nothing foreign to Judaism.

A camaraderie develops when doing chores together, and there is the motivation to do them since we are all doing our part for the T9 community.

Separated from us by only a brick wall, a black fence, and a bulwark of elite education, the folks who sleep on Mass. Ave. benches are just as much my neighbors as my friends down the hall.

Before coming to Tivnu, it was a big goal of mine to prioritize sustainability and environmentally conscious behaviors in my daily life.