Gap Year

This Thanksgiving Break, Tivnu gave us the opportunity to explore Seattle and celebrate Thanksgiving together. We relished the chance in Seattle to relax and discover a new city. Afterwards our group split up and those of us who decided to return to Portland for the holiday were added to a group chat entitled “Colonialism Sucks, Turkey is Good, Family is Important.” Our “Thanksgivnu” celebration involved discussions which touched on all of these aspects (although, naturally, the turkey was central)….

A few weeks ago, the Tivnu 8 cohort took a weekend trip to the beautiful Westwind camp on the coast of Oregon. We went to the beach, canoed, sang around the Shabbat dinner table, and slept in two rustic cabins. Here is a photo diary of our trip!…

It quickly felt very rewarding to teach kids skills that will actually help them in life, such as planting and harvesting food and cooking healthy meals from the food they pick. …

This vlog highlights a day in the life of T8 (Tivnu’s 8th cohort), from morning until Shabbat begins. Watch it to see how social everyone is in the morning, what we do at the construction job site, and how we get ready for Shabbat. Hope you enjoy it!…

8 haikus for Tivnu 8…

I ran downstairs, grabbed a plum top sheet and a container of thumbtacks. Thumb tacking a sheet to a wall was harder than I imagined it would be….

Realizing that T7 is nearing the end of our time together, I wanted to use this blog post as a means to reflect on the whole year behind us. I was trying to think of a story or a lesson to sum up this experience but …

As we embarked on our Tivnu trip to Mount Hood, we were excited for a getaway filled with snowshoeing and igloo building….

This blog post was authored by Liv Kaplan, a member of the Tivnu 7 cohort from Minnetonka, Minnesota. In her free time, she loves creating and sharing art in its myriad ways with friends, nature, the city and beyond. …

During the past many months, I have asked numerous questions. Some dumb and some incredibly serious. I have always been deeply curious, rolling questions off my tongue from my first breath….