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Birthright now offering skateboarding, hip hop-themed trips to Israel
As if it wasn’t enough to offer Jews around the world a trip to Israel totally free of charge, the Birthright industry is now marketing “the only skateboarding trip to Israel” and a “hip hop” trip. This is in addition to the already popular “niche” tours that include those catering to the LGBT community, food…
By Mairav Zonszein February 14, 2013
Breaking the Silence marketing tours to Birthrighters
Breaking the Silence — the organization of former IDF soldiers who talk about their experiences serving in the Occupied Territories in an effort to expose the everyday reality of Israeli control of the West Bank — is now marketing its tours of the West Bank to participants of the Birthright-Israel trip while here in Israel.…
By Mairav Zonszein July 10, 2011
Please, don’t send your kid on a Birthright tour (by Eyal Clyne)
I ask this as an Israeli, who is trying to make Israel a better place, who served his country, and continues to struggle for a better society, for peace, for human rights and civil equality. Please, don’t send your children to Birthright Israel (“Taglit”), The Israeli Experience, or any similar project. These projects support war…
By +972 Magazine October 19, 2010
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