Author - ck

Taglit-birthright israel trip provider Oranim likes to pride itself on its ability to show its trip participants Israel from the perspective of Israelis, and while the number of Orthodox Jews in...

The last time I wrote about our trip, we had just made it to our hotel in Jerusalem, anticipating the extensive touring that was to take place on Thursday. The day began at the Haas Promenade. The...

One of the great parts of any birthright israel trip are the mifgashim. Basically half way through the trip we are joined by 8 Israelis. Since they are the same age as the trip participants, they are...

This evening, we were graced with a nice talk by Leah Stern (top right). Leah is a correspondent for the Israel Broadcasting Authority. A native of Miami, she made aliyah to Israel nearly three years...

There are a lot of people that want to be Taglit-birthright israel madrichim (trip leaders). They figure it’s a “free” trip to Israel and all you have to do is go on an all expenses...

I can’t believe that today is only Monday. The day started with a visit to the ancient city of Acre (aka Akko). Yael our tour guide extraordinaire walked us through the history of this ancient...

Hey hey! This is ck, reporting once more on the progress of our Oranim run, Jewlicious sponsored free trip to Israel, which, as you all probably know, came about as a generous gift from Taglit...

Hi! This is ck reporting from Jerusalem. It’s 3 am Sunday morning and me and my trip participants just got back from hitting downtown Jerusalem, so to speak. Allow me to backtrack a bit. As you...