Registration for Summer 2012 Birthright trips opens on February 15. URJ KESHER Taglit-Birthright Israel offers these FREE trips to Israel for 18-26 year olds who have never been to Israel before. To take advantage of this incredible opportunity, visit www.gokesher.org
Choose from two unique programs in association with Kibbutz Lotan in Israel where students from Israeli and American universities join together to study organic gardening, natural construction, planning sustainable communities, coexistence, and conflict resolution.
On Netzer Year, high school graduates get the unique opportunity to take part in an international and cross-cultural exchange with peers from North America and around the world, all-the-while living, learning, and volunteering in Israel.
The award winning service-learning program in Tel Aviv and Jaffa for university graduates. Foster coexistence and take part in direct community service.
Tuba Zangaria Mosque in Israel was the victim of an arson attack on October 2, 2011, which included the burning of their holy books. ARZA with the Reform Movements in the US and Israel, the CCAR and the Israel Religious Action Center raised money to help rebuild the Israeli mosque and relations with their community.
Subscribe to ARZA's newsletter and join to support their efforts. ARZA keeps subscribers and members up to date on the important issues facing Israel, along with ways to take action.
On December 2, 2010, the worst fire in Israel's history raged across Haifa and the Carmel Forest. ARZA, URJ, and the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism are helping to rebuild lives of those affected through the IMPJ Humanitarian Fund. Learn more and donate now.
Learn about the group of women who meet every Rosh Chodesh to pray at the Western Wall, and support them in their ongoing struggle to continue to do so in peace.
No issue in recent memory has so mobilized Jews from all streams and all parts of Israel and the Diaspora as has the bill proposed by MK David Rotem to vest authority for conversions in the hands of the Chief Rabbinate. The Knesset has now adjourned until October, and while success was achieved, there is more to be done.
This book traces Rabbi Richard Hirsch's efforts to build and support Progressive Judaism in Israel and to integrate Reform Judaism into the institutions of the Zionist Movement.
For most American Jews, Israel is only seen through the lens of the political debate, the impressions of the news report or the windows of a tour bus. Begun as a weekly online essay in response to the Second Intifada in 2000, Galilee Diary goes beyond the headlines to provide an insiders view of the rich and complex reality that is Israel.
Join a Young boy and his cousin Tamar as they learn about Jewish life in Israel and North America in this age appropriate introduction to Israel for young children from the author of Good Morning, Boker Tov, Good Night, Lilah Tov and Shabbat Shalom.