What last summer’s participants say about SummerFest: “Beautiful location, very inspiring, totally fun.” “Amazing food, amazing people.” “Sickest most bad-ass...
Author - Rabbi Yonah
Yom Hashoah: From the Depths of our Souls
Survivors are disappearing. We are left with stories, fragments, articles, films, interviews. But nothing can capture the enormity of what happened between 1939-1945. Nothing. After spending years in...
Tiyul B’Aretz: Study Abroad Where Israel Is Your Classroom
Tiyul B’Aretz is a new way of engaging Israel outside the current institutional avenues. If only this program was around when I was in college! Tiyul B’Aretz is run by Tamar Field-Gersh...
Israel Deploys Ironic Letter Against Flightilla
According to the Israel Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Facebook Page, Flighttilla activists will receive the following letter which begins, “We appreciate your choosing to...
#NextGenJewCon: JFNA’s TribeFest Hits The Jackpot
The laughing and eager crowd of mostly single, Jewish adults were watching the large projection screens at the front of the conference hall, because the on-stage speaker, Rachel Dratch, appeared tiny...
The Ten Minute Seder, World’s Shortest Kosher Haggadah
Want a quick Seder to do with anxious relatives or kids? Presenting the “Ten Minute Seder.” This Hagaddah is two pages long and was created to be used at a Shabbat Tent Seder. Everything...