Eighteen British teens from the youth movement Bnei Akiva just cycled from Manchester to London—178 miles—to raise money for a sheltered playground in Sderot, Israel. The cycle began on March 30 and lasted four days.

At the moment, the situation in Sderot is catastrophic. For the past seven years, the people of Sderot have lived under constant attack from gunfire and Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinians. Between October 2000 and November 2007, 6,311 rockets have landed in Sderot.

March was a pretty dreary month for me, with the exception of one week, which I spent in the homeland of Mad Cow Disease. Although I ate no beef while there, I nevertheless had a great time touring England, taking part in an exchange program between my school, The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston, and the King Solomon School on London.