The annual heritage trip to Poland is a powerful rite of passage for Israeli teenagers, and the 11th-grade students at the Mr. and Mrs. Lester Sutker AMIT Modi’in School for Boys want to make sure that all of their classmates attend this year.
For that reason, a few of them have organized a Hanukkah candle sale, the proceeds of which will go toward helping fund the trip for their peers from socioeconomically disadvantaged homes.
The three boys who spearheaded the initiative said that their goal is to “leave no friend behind.” They believe any student who wishes to go to Poland to learn about their Jewish heritage and about the Holocaust should be able to do so, despite financial difficulties.
“We decided that Hanukkah candles are the ideal way to help our friends go on the journey to Poland,” the boys said in a statement. “They have symbolized the triumph of the Jewish spirit throughout generations—then and now.”
