and their Jewish peers. Designed as a second experience in Israel, Onward is experienced either as an extension program to a ten-day Birthright trip (“Birthright & Onward”) or as a stand-alone program ...

The Jewish Futures Project (JFP) has been following multiple cohorts of Birthright participants, and others who applied to the program but did not go, for over a decade. In the sixth wave of the JFP ...

Birthright is standing unapologetically behind its decision on the woman, Sierra, who has denied interview requests and asked that her last name not be used. Its program is meant to build Jewish ...

Except these were not Jewish students on Birthright, but Christian collegians ... As many as 3,000 students a year have visited Israel through the program since its launch in 2016.

Since Taglit-Birthright Israel began in December 1999, the program has sent over 650,000 Jewish young adults to Israel from 67 countries, all 50 U.S. states and Canadian provinces, and from over 1,000 ...

In 1999, wealthy Jewish donors founded something called Birthright Israel. I was in college in the late 1980s and 90s, so unfortunately, the program wasn’t available to me. But the idea was this.

The United States and Israel both wield “birthright” as a tool of settler colonialism—one through exclusion, the other ...

Lauren is a member of Cohort 8 of the Birthright Israel Fellows program and is getting her Masters in Jewish Professional Studies from Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership. In her free ...

More than 20,000 young adults on Birthright programs have arrived in Israel post-October 7, 2023, and one of those 20,000 young Jews is 25-year-old Brendan Schneier. “Especially after October 7 ...

Nearly 5,000 of the total number chose the volunteer program ... really want to connect more to my Jewish heritage, to other Jewish students and to Israel." Birthright provides funded trips ...

By working with pro-Israel Jewish groups on campuses, this initiative could amplify efforts to defend Israel, counter ...