Baseball pros toss balls on Birthright
Minor league players Jake Lemmerman and Jeremy Gould reflect on the Ramon Crater, Team Israel and the Tel Aviv beach
View ArticleAboard the Asperger’s bus, a quirky ‘mishpocha’
Members of a Birthright group talk about the joys of seeing the country with people just like themselves
View ArticleBirthright is the right birthday present
For 340,000 young Jews so far — and for Israel itself — the Taglit trips have proved to be the gift that keeps on giving
View ArticleSex, science and sojourns to Israel
The Israeli Presidential Conference had much more to offer than President Shimon Peres’s birthday or Sharon Stone’s visions for peace
View ArticleNew JAFI program strives to mind the Birthright gap
Onward Israel says it gives students a glimpse of hands-on Israeli life, but some students complain they’re merely being turned into PR machines
View ArticleEmpowering olim — so they’ll stay
Five years after presenting his first plan to ease aliyah, Guy Seemann on Wednesday launches Kol Oleh, a movement to give olim issues prominence in the Tel Aviv elections campaign
View ArticleJewish Agency has new plan to boost Israel-Diaspora ties
New initiative focusing on education, engagement and immigration incentives boasts budget 3 times larger than Birthright’s
View ArticleA birthright for mom and dad
Mayanot Legacy launches the first-ever Israeli tour designed specifically for the parents of Birthright alumni
View ArticleA free trip to Israel? No thanks
With interest in Birthright missions on the wane, it’s time to engage young Jews about why they should care
View ArticleFrench Birthright expected to increase tenfold this year
Over a thousand Jewish participants are set to take part in Taglit’s free, ten day trips to Israel
View ArticleIf you had an Israeli anti-bucket list, what would it be?
Everyone has a list of must-do’s in Israel. But what are your must-don’ts?
View ArticleWill urgent campus pro-Israel project fail through infighting?
JAFI head Sharansky says Diaspora Ministry’s ‘petty games’ threaten to derail first phase of major Israel-world Jewry initiative
View ArticleNew Birthright program courting US Hebrew speakers
Organization will offer free trips for children of Israelis living in America
View ArticleNetanyahu urges mass immigration to Israel
At annual Birthright event, PM asks in wake of Paris attacks if Jews worldwide could march in the street declaring ‘Je Suis Juif’
View ArticleLet’s help young Jews talk about Israel
Ideas on how Jewish “engagers” can help students and others navigate the often toxic discourse on Israel
View ArticleOverlooked Arab Israeli beach town opens its doors to tourists
Nestled between Caesarea and Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael, new guesthouse in Jisr az-Zarqa hopes to entice backpackers and shed town’s negative image
View ArticleA year on, soldier’s death in Gaza binds his US family to Israel
Evie Steinberg, who came to the holy land for the first time to bury her son, Sgt. Max Steinberg, now ‘dreads going home’
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