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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Participant are also 85% more likely to be attached to Israel, an analysis of Pew Center data finds.
"We expect to bring about 3,000 young adults from around the world in the next two months, and during the summer we expect about 15,000 from North America and nearly 20,000 worldwide"
It isn’t the only new initiative Birthright is undertaking: “Birthright Israel Labs” is meant to further engage and connect alumni and the greater Diaspora community.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Participants will still have to do PCR and serological tests upon arrival.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The participants—vaccinated students from the United States—arrived for a 10-day educational tour, visiting such places as the Golan Heights, Safed, Jerusalem, Masada, the Dead Sea and Tel Aviv.
“We came back a little prouder of what we do. It sharpened something in our sense of mission,” say Israeli officers who visited American Jewish communities.
By Israel Hayom
A record 48,000 participants from around abroad and 8,300 Israelis took part in 10-day tours in 2018.
Guiding in the land of Israel, learning Tanach, feminism, Masada, motherhood, miracles and more today on Rejuvenation with Eve Harow.
What is the solution? Extreme vetting? Refund demands? A PR campaign explaining how Birthright is non-partisan? Extreme surveillance of the group? Or something else....
Find the American students, we are looking for Birthright participants.
By Guest Author
An open letter to the members of IfNotNow from a sympathetic-yet critical-Rabbi, who made aliya
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While young people were preparing for their flights to Israel, they were asked about certain issues and policies, with their answers recorded.
On today's show David Ha'ivri will be speaking with Dr. Mike Cohen of the Nano Bible Association
By JNi.Media
In the very recent past, this anti-Zionist group went after one of the most fundamental concepts in the history of the Zionist movement in the Land of Israel: Avoda Ivrit – Jewish Labor.
Naftali Bennett: Israel will bring parents of lone soldiers to Israel to visit their children and see Israel.
It is ours. It has always been ours. We can always return because it is a right that we have possessed since birth.
Why aren't American Jews coming s to Israel for the summer; Are they scared because of the war?
By JTA
Sharansky admits that non-practicing Jews likely to assimilate, says Israel "only way" to keep connection to Judaism
Taglit-Birthright will finally allow participants to see important parts of their heritage, hopefully they will expand this further to include more, important sites.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Taglit-Birthright Israel program has expanded eligibility for its free 10-day trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18-26 to include teenagers who went on an educational trip to Israel during high school Birthright’s eligibility guidelines previously stated, “If you have been to Israel before but only with your family or on other personal […]
We don’t pretend to know how and why God works, but it can be speculated that the financial disaster of Israel’s giant IDB was the way for a Chabad Jew to enter Israel’s secular Big Business elite.
By JTA
Some 120 Jewish leaders from Israel and around the world convened for a two-day summit on formulating a plan to strengthen the connection between Israel and Diaspora Jewish communities. Run in conjunction with the Jewish Agency for Israel, the summit on Wednesday and Thursday will focus, in part, on strengthening Jewish identity among Jewish young […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Landau says that he hopes to create a program modeled after Taglit-Birthright Israel trips for young Evangelical Christians, as part of an effort to increase Christian tourism in the Jewish state. “The Christians have a problem with their next generation too,” Landau said, Ynet reported. “We are looking to get closer […]
The goal of a new Birthright initiative is to nearly double the number of participants, and to provide financial incentives for young high-tech professionals to make Aliyah
Chabad rabbis who had boarded a flight from the Ukraine to Israel via Moscow convinced six boys going on a Birthright Israel program to wear tefillin for the first time in their lives. “How would you like to put on tefillin now? We can’t think of a better preparation for going to the Holy Land,” […]
Let us also not forget that Adelson criticized many of the social values of the Republican Party before it became fashionable to do so.
Jewish Outreach founder Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald and Birthright’s co-founder, self-declared atheist Michael Steinhardt have agreed “to wrestle out” their beliefs in a debate.
Federal prosecutors and pro-Israel Republican stalwart Sheldon Adelson’s casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp. may have come to an understanding on issues pertaining to money-laundering laws allegedly violated in the cases of two criminal high-rollers, the Wall Street Journal reports.
By Ryan Yuffe, Israel Campus Beat
As students prepare for the new academic year, the campus Israel community is stocking up with new ideas for attracting participants.
Israel’s lacrosse team – which did not exist just two years ago – is dazzling the world of sports, defeating Slovakia and France in recent matches to stand 2-0 in its first-ever European Championships. On Thursday, Israel defeated number 17 ranked Slovakia 11-8, and then number 27 ranked France in a drenching rain on Friday. […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Traci Szymanski: "Every meeting, every encounter is an opportunity to change someone’s conception about Israel and the Jewish people. If we work to change the misconceptions about Israel, it will help decrease the prejudice and hate that often misconstrues the reality here."
I watch in wonder as four teenagers grab chairs around a table at a local café. They seem to be friends, or at least fond acquaintances, all joining together for a ten-day Birthright tour of Israel. I watch these boys from a balcony above, and I observe that immediately upon sitting down, three of the four boys at the table proceed to reach for their laptops. The fourth boy didn’t seem to have one with him and attached himself to his friend’s laptop. They immediately logged into their Facebook accounts and spent the remainder of their meal connecting to friends in their respective countries.
A new feature-length documentary starring one of Harvard University’s all-time most popular professors reveals the secret components of Israel’s success as an international leader in innovation and humanitarianism.
Republican US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s relationship with Jewish mega-billionaire and foremost donor Sheldon Adelson has raised the ire of critics, who say Gingrich’s very public support for Israel is an exchange for support.
September 11, 2026 
