Tag: Taglit

The cut in donations coincides with a sharp rise in Taglit’s expenses due to increased prices of plane tickets and Israeli hotel rooms.

Participant are also 85% more likely to be attached to Israel, an analysis of Pew Center data finds.

Unable to return home due to the war, three groups of Birthright Israel participants are being put up in Israel until the situation improves.

"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"

Participants will still have to do PCR and serological tests upon arrival.

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.

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....

An open letter to the members of IfNotNow from a sympathetic-yet critical-Rabbi, who made aliya

While young people were preparing for their flights to Israel, they were asked about certain issues and policies, with their answers recorded.

Naftali Bennett: Israel will bring parents of lone soldiers to Israel to visit their children and see Israel.

The Adelsons are having dinner at the White House with America's First Couple and a source says Israel is on the agenda.

Taglit-Birthright Israel has passed a significant milestone with the designation of the program’s 400,000th participant: Ryan Hunter, 20, a student from Syosset, NY (Long Island).

Taglit-Birthright will finally allow participants to see important parts of their heritage, hopefully they will expand this further to include more, important sites.

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...

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.