HDCA Kennes is the annual gathering of machaneh professional staff and board members, maapilimot and the Mazkirut Artzit to strategize, collaborate, troubleshoot and celebrate all things Habonim Dror camping! Please join us!
Registration for Kennes is open! Use this link to register and please reach out to your Board Chair or Executive Director for further information.
It’s a New Year… Meet Our New Mazkirut Artzit Members
When September rolled around, we said goodbye to Zandra Campbell – our former Rakazol Chinuch. Zandra served in her position for two years and brought education, passion, commitment and joy to her position at a very difficult time. We thank her very much!
For the upcoming year Judah Altman, Mazkirol, and Zev Dever, Central Shlichol, are joined by three additional members. Introducing:
Eliza Roth, Rakezet Tzmicha
Eliza grew up in Northern Virginia. She moved to Austin, Texas for college where she studied Race, Indigeneity and Migration at the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated in May of 2024, earning a Creative Writing certificate in addition to her B.A. Eliza grew up in Habonim Dror at Camp Moshava. She started going to camp in 2015 and worked her first year on tzevet in 2019. After the summer of 2020, Eliza came back to Mosh with a renewed sense of responsibility and belief in the importance of Mosh and took on three years of leadership tafkidim, culminating in being Rosh in 2023. As Rakezet Tzmicha she will be focused on building up programs and structures for movement members on campuses, helping out with kenim, working with Habonim Dror alumni, and being a liaison to the machanot. Outside of HDNA, Eliza enjoys writing, cooking, and dancing.
Helen Landau, Rakezet Tochniot
Hi! My name is Helen and I am the incoming Rakezet Tochniot of Habonim Dror North
America. I grew up right outside of Philadelphia and went to Camp Galil for the first time when I was 13. After my first summer at Galil, I kept coming back to machaneh and did madatz in 2018 and was on tzevet for the first time in 2019. I also went on Workshop 69, and then was a madricha for Galil At Home during the pandemic. In 2021, I was on tzevet again at Galil, and in 2022, I was an MBI madricha for Kvutza 74. I just finished my second summer as Chinuch on Mazkirut at Galil, and while I’m sad to be saying goodbye to this phase of my time in HDNA, I’m really excited to be joining the Mazkirut Artzit. Outside of machaneh, I’ve been on the movement’s Zionism Va’ad since 2020 and have helped build peulot and seminar programming for nachshonimot and maapilimot around the pillar. I also had the opportunity to be on the tzevet for Veida in 2022, which taught me a lot and was also super fun!
After returning from Workshop, I went to Scripps College in Claremont, California, where I majored in History and minored in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. I’m especially interested in learning about historical narratives that don’t make it into the K-12 curriculum, and am very passionate about history education and archives. I wrote my senior thesis on the domestic Cold War and federal surveillance of Jewish and Black creatives and activists and graduated in December 2023. I’m happy to share it with anyone who’s interested in reading it! In my free time, I love making art and doing various crafts, reading books, baking gluten free desserts, taking pictures of the moon, listening to music (especially Taylor Swift!), bingeing TV shows, and hanging out with my friends.
I’m so excited to be joining the mazkirut artzit and stepping into the role of Rakezet Tochniot. It’s been such a meaningful experience getting to work with ma’apilimot at machaneh, and I’m feeling very grateful to have such incredible partners in shaping the movement. I hope to see a lot of you at veida! Reach out to me whenever, I’m always happy to hear about your lives or talk about your dreams for the movement 🙂
AvH,
Helen Landau (she/her/hers)
Charlotte Frischer, Rakezet Chinuch
Charlotte has joined the Mazkirut Artzit as Rakezet Chinuch (Director of Education). She grew up at Machaneh Tavor in Kvutza 69, was on tzevet at Galil, and was a madricha for MBI/MBM in 2023 and 2024. She is looking forward to building exciting seminars that meet movement members of all different learning styles and creating a neurodiversity tochnit for HDNA.