Becky Voorwinde
By Becky Voorwinde
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Community Embracing Plan B: Why Bronfman is deciding now not to have its 2021 summer program in Israel
Summer Israel experiences can be transformative opportunities for American Jewish teens, and those of us who spend all year making these experiences as incredible as possible have been wrestling with the looming question mark that is the summer of 2021. One colleague, reluctant to reimagine the popular Israel trip they run, remarked at a recent…
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Opinion Edgar Bronfman’s Enduring Contribution to Jewish Youth
Over the course of his life, Edgar Bronfman, who died December 21 at age 84, founded and supported innumerable Jewish charitable causes, including many with other members of his family. But among those he launched on his own, he considered the most significant to be the Bronfman Youth Fellowships, a Jewish identity program for Israelis…
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