Birthright

This is the Forward’s coverage of Taglit-Birthright Israel, a free 10-day trip to Israel for young adults with Jewish heritage.

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Birthright Walkout Leaders Create GoFundMe For Canceled Flights, Lost Deposits

Eight Birthright participants who walked off their tours Sunday created a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to cover their canceled flights and forfeited deposits. The participants were on two separate trips, according to the GoFundMe page. Birthright didn’t approve of them deviating from their itinerary to meet with a Palestinian family that lived in East…

By Alyssa Fisher Jul 18, 2018 | < 1 min read
Opinion
The Real Reason People Are Upset About Birthright Walkouts

The Jewish world is in an uproar over what are being called “Birthright walkouts”. Twice this summer, a number of students have publicly announced that they would be leaving their Birthright trips midway to learn more about the plight of the Palestinians. Filming themselves, they then abandoned the trip. Both times, the resulting brouhaha dominated…

By Batya Ungar-Sargon Jul 18, 2018 | 4 min read
Opinion
Playing Politics With Birthright? That’s Like Stealing A Free Trip To Israel.

Are Jewish 20-somethings entitled to a free trip to Israel? For decades, the donors behind Birthright Israel have gifted thousands of young Jews from around the world with 10-day immersive experiences in the Holy Land. The heritage and culture trips sometimes center around a particular theme, like Israeli food, Russian culture, or Israel’s LGBTQ commuity….

By Bethany Mandel Jul 17, 2018 | 4 min read
Opinion
Walking Out On Birthright Was The Right Thing To Do

Last week, five participants of Birthright walked out on the program and straight onto a tour of the segregated city of Hebron with IDF veterans from Breaking the Silence, where they saw what Birthright desperately tried to hide. They saw the checkpoints, the streets Palestinians aren’t allowed to walk on and the caged windows that…

By Avrum Burg Jul 17, 2018 | 3 min read
Opinion
Have Your Say: Is It Ok To Walk Off Of A Birthright Trip?

Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Comment below or on Facebook and let us know what you think about the question posed in the headline. In recent weeks, Birthright participants affiliated with both IfNotNow and Peace Now have staged walkouts from their trips, in protest of Birthright’s policy of…

By Forward Stafff Jul 16, 2018 | < 1 min read
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Another Group Leaves Birthright To Visit Palestinians

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A group of American Jews visiting Israel on a free Birthright trip walked off the tour during a visit to the City of David in Jerusalem to visit a Palestinian family who is facing eviction from their eastern Jerusalem home. Six of the young people came from one Birthright tour and two…

By JTA Jul 15, 2018 | 2 min read
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U.K. Jewish Group Gives Info About Occupation To Birthright Groups At Airport

The debate over how Birthright Israel trips talk (or don’t talk) about Palestinians has gone global, with the latest action taking place in London. A new British Jewish group called Na’amod: British Jews Against Occupation traveled to Luton Airport on Sunday to hand out informational materials about the occupation to departing Birthright participants. The group…

By Aiden Pink Jul 15, 2018 | 2 min read
Community
Birthright Has An Agenda — And That’s Perfectly Okay

This summer, for the first time, I staffed a Birthright trip — and it was incredible. Ten action-packed days without more than a minute to breathe. But it wasn’t the itinerary that made the trip so amazing; it was the people. My bus was filled with forty young professionals with very little prior knowledge of…

By Michael Shavolian Jul 13, 2018 | 3 min read

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Birthright

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Birthright Walkout Leaders Create GoFundMe For Canceled Flights, Lost Deposits

The Real Reason People Are Upset About Birthright Walkouts

Playing Politics With Birthright? That’s Like Stealing A Free Trip To Israel.

Walking Out On Birthright Was The Right Thing To Do

Have Your Say: Is It Ok To Walk Off Of A Birthright Trip?

Another Group Leaves Birthright To Visit Palestinians

U.K. Jewish Group Gives Info About Occupation To Birthright Groups At Airport

Birthright Has An Agenda — And That’s Perfectly Okay

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Walking Out On Birthright Was The Right Thing To Do

Have Your Say: Is It Ok To Walk Off Of A Birthright Trip?

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