Tag: Birthright
US Birthright participants 160% more likely to marry Jews
U.S. Jews who participated in Birthright trips to Israel are more highly identified and engaged in communal life than their peers who did not, according to an analysis of the Pew Research Center’s 2020...
Birthright ready to rock, just as Israel needs boost in tourism
Starting this week, about 14,000 Birthright Israel participants from nearly 900 universities and colleges in North America are expected to land in Israel in the coming months. The flights mark Birthright Israel’s long-awaited return after a series...
ESPN host and basketball star Rosalyn Gold-Onwude opens up on Israel’s impact on her...
When Rosalyn Gold-Onwude was a college student at Stanford University, she participated on Birthright Israel. Several years later, she went on her second trip—this time, as a staff member on her younger sister’s Birthright...
Love and generosity: A farewell tribute to Sheldon Adelson
On a Friday morning, slightly more than six months ago, we convened a transatlantic Zoom call. There we were, the deputy editor of Makor Rishon, Orly Goldklang from Ofra, myself from Jerusalem, and Sheldon and...
Birthright launches online interactive tour as pandemic halts trips to Israel
For the first time in its history, Birthright Israel has postponed all trips since mid-March due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
“While tens of thousands of Jewish young adults were planned to visit Israel this...
Birthright at 20: An interview with power-couple philanthropists Sheldon and Miriam Adelson
Birthright, the project established in 2000 by philanthropists Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt, has brought 750,000 participants to see Israel for themselves. The Hebrew daily Makor Rishon recently convened the project’s founders, via video-conference, to explain...
Birthright receives its first-ever donation from China
Techconn Holding Group CEO Ben Wong signed a memorandum of understanding with Birthright Israel CEO Gidi Mark at a festive ceremony last week in Tel Aviv before going on to announce what the organization...
As J Street U launches Israel trip, concerns arise over partiality
J Street U, the student wing of J Street, announced last week that it was planning its own version of a Birthright Israel trip this summer—not competing with the long-established 10-day free trips for...
Relevant, responsive, ready: Birthright at 19, still growing strong
For Birthright Israel, 2018 was nothing short of a banner year—a year that accomplished something organizers could only have dreamed of back in 1999. That’s when a few key philanthropists linked arms with the...
Is J Street U attempting to ‘hijack’ the Birthright experience?
When Taylor King boarded the airplane in 2012, she was a newly minted college graduate who, like most of her fellow Birthright Israel travelers, had never been to Israel.
“I didn’t really know what Israel...