By Katie Felstein, Bogeret of HDUK, and Katie Rumanovsky, Bogeret of HDOZ. Members of Garin Tof Miriam in Hadera

“Youth movements gave the youth observation posts from which they could both criticize and reject their society and positively choose a society that, though not yet existent, was reflected by the lifestyles and relationships within the movements.”

-Tzvi Lamm, “The Eternal Basis of the Youth Movement”

Kvutzat Tof Miriam was supposed to be having a seminar in Israel this month about the new stage of the Garin, with new members who would have just made aliya and a new madrich. Instead, on the 7th October, everything changed.