After Birthright

August 31, 2009

Articles, NU Voices for Israel

The Israeli paper Ha’aretz reports on the Israel Diplomatic Fellowship, a new pilot program which is training college-graduated Birthright Israel alumni living in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago as advocates for Israel. The program includes six monthly meetings in the U.S. and a concluding Israel trip.

Says Rabbi Daniel Brenner (a New Jerseyan), the executive director of Birthright Israel NEXT:

“I hope this program will transcend the ‘American-tourist-meets-Israeli-native mode of conversation and begin a more in-depth cultural exchange about what it means to be part of the Jewish world globally…”

For more information onthe fellowship, go here.