Category - Free Trip to Israel

This is the view from the 8th floor of the Novotel Hotel which straddles Meah Shearim and East Jerusalem. It shows the Hebrew University of Jerusalem out in the distance atop Mt. Scopus. We will be...

On our trip we have a couple of people from the University of Wisconsin. They have taken it upon themselves to respond to a certain poster for Jewlicious who left comments they didn’t like...

Today we spent the day in the Golan. Here we see Ofer showing us how close we are to Syria and Lebanon on a hill overlooking the border region. The strategic importance of the region was underscored...

Later in the afternoon, we visited the city of Safed, the epicenter of Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah. Here we see ck posing with some cute kids who wanted to have their pictures taken – laya...

A standard part of every Taglit birthright-israel trip is the “Shehechyanu” ceremony. After getting up at 7:00 am, we had breakfast and then drove to the Bahai Gardens on Mt. Carmel in...

This coming Sunday, Laya and I will meet our co-madrich Sha’anan and 40 young Jews who will have just arrived from New York. Over the next 10 days we will be travelling the width and breadth of...