By Melissa Seltzer

As our first full day of Etgar 36 began, we set off to the Pencil Factory to discuss the story of Leo Frank. We were standing at the site where in 1913, Leo Frank, a white Jewish man who managed the factory, was accused of murdering a…

By Elliot Scher

We began our first full day of the summer journey in Atlanta by exploring the anti-Semitism that engulfed the city and the world. It is the story of good-hearted Northern-born Jewish Leo Frank, who came down to Atlanta to run a pencil factory. The disaster began in…

The journey is under way! 40 teens who did not know each other have met in Atlanta and have begun Etgar 36 2009.

Before the staff could even begin the planned ice breakers the teens started their own getting to know you games! They have bonded really quickly and it…

By Nathaniel Tabachnik

Day one of our journey began today as we traveled the city of Atlanta with the bus as our only real home. We went from site to site, meeting with some of the most interesting, vivid and knowledgeable people I have ever met.

Our first stop was…

Well it is now after midnight in Atlanta and everyone is in their hotel rooms and quiet. The day was a great start to what will be a fantastic journey. Everyone is excited for what’s to come, but tired right now.

Today was spent getting to know each other and…

By Kimmie Kochman

Our journey began by meeting with a historian at the spot where a Jewish man named Leo Frank was lynched in 1915. He told us that there were 400 documented lynchings during the early 1900s and only one was of a white man and it was Leo…

From Nathaniel Eisen:

As a group, we decided that everything we did today had to do with Civil Rights and, yet, each issue has so much to explore in it. We were helped in our exploration of each issue by meeting with friendly and dedicated people that work on these…

From Justin Levy:

Saul Bellows said “In the warmest of hearts, there is a cold spot for the Jews”. This idea led us to our first meeting of our journey with Dale Schwartz and Rabbi Steven Lebow, two researchers and speakers on Leo Frank and his historic cause in 1913.…

From group leader Billy Planer:

FIRST DAY!

Well it is midnight in Atlanta and the kids have been checked into their hotel rooms. The day was a great start to what will be a fantastic journey. The kids are good and tired right now.

Today was not a very eventful…

From Eric F. (17 yrs old from Knoxville, TN):

Hey Mom and Dad! Today began the first day of our odyssey across the great continent. We set out at the very crack of dawn at 8:30. This was quite a change from the typical 2:00 PM wake up. The Fairfield…