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They meet me, get to know me and guide me. They can
tell me I’m doing well, but they can also show me that I
could do better. They reveal to me the journey that
they’ve been on and cause me to reflect upon my own
journey, the choices I’ve made, and choices I could make.
They represent a choice to give high priority to physical
health and wellbeing, and even if I don’t want to become
a personal trainer myself, I can draw inspiration from
that choice, the example they set, and I can make choices
in my life in light of theirs.

My wish is for shlichut to be something that bothers and
energizes HDNA. I can point
to questions that I think would
be worth raising, but it’s for
members of the youth
movement ultimately to
decide how to answer them.
Some of the questions are old,
but they’re still worth asking.
Can we confront Diaspora Jewish life as a dilemma, not
an assumption? Could Habonim Dror be a large,
successful movement - with thousands of chanichim?
Do Jewish young adults still know how to educate their
chanichim towards affinity for and responsibility over
the Jewish people? And could they face the challenge of
building a just and democratic society in Israel, one that
lives in peace with its neighbours?

One final word on shlichut, from a different angle.
Marian Wright Edelman, an African-American civil