While free trips to Israel are set to resume, previous controversies and shifting priorities may take center stage.
Birthright Israel is all about giving gifts. So even when we couldn’t give the gift of a trip, we found other ways to give.
“To see that there are effects that you’re able to see 10, 20 years later, that’s really surprising.”
Summer trips to Israel used to be a far more ubiquitous part of American Jewish life for teenagers than they are today.
Having been on both the ZOA trip and Hasbara trip, Scott Boxer says that both are dangerous in the false rightwing propaganda they spread.
There was no EpiPen on board the Delta flight.
The inaugural 10-day tour, titled ‘Let Our People Know,’ arrives Tuesday and features meetings with settlers and peace activists.
IfNotNow leaders said they were doing “teshuva” over the anti-Birthright campaign, amid larger concerns from members over how the organization is run.
“Birthright’s main problem… isn’t in how it treats the occupation, but what it’s done to Judaism back home, here in the U.S.”
Founder of Birthright Yossi Beilin details why it’s important to go on Birthright, rather than protest it.