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Community Dustin “The White Tiger” Fleischer’s Latest Birthright Adventures
Attention Israel, there is a White Tiger roaming the land! He has been spotted under the waterfalls of Ein Gedi, navigating through the underground tunnels of Gesher, whitewater rafting down the Jordan River, and floating on the Dead Sea. Stay tuned for more of my adventures on Birthright.
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Community Dustin “The White Tiger” Fleischer’s First Two Days on Birthright
Undefeated pro-boxer Dustin “The White Tiger” Fleischer is in Israel with Birthright and sharing his experiences with the Forward. DAY 1 On our first day of Birthright, we visited Jaffa, the ancient port city of Tel Aviv, Nahalat Binyamin Market and Rothschild Boulevard. As someone who is interested in the history of our nation, Rothschild…
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Culture The Lessons They Didn’t Teach Me on Birthright
On the morning of November 25, 2014, broken windows lined St. Louis’s South Grand Boulevard. The previous night, the thriving commercial stretch next to Tower Grove Park had become a site for protests over the decision of a grand jury not to indict the white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson for the August 9…
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News Birthright by the Numbers
(JTA) — There may be no such thing as a free lunch. But there is a free 10-day trip to Israel. For 16 years now, the Birthright Israel Foundation has been giving away guided tours of the country to young people from around the world. The goal is to strengthen participants’ Jewish identity and connection to…
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Breaking News ‘Birthright for Moms’ Expands to Latin America
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A Cuban delegation will for the first time participate in the “Birthright for Jewish Moms” trip to Israel, as the sponsoring group works to expand its reach in Latin America. The trip sponsored by the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project will visit Israel from May 9 to May 18, and will observe Yom…
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Life ‘Broad City’ Didn’t Just Go on Birthright — It Spent 21 Minutes Mocking It
When Ilana and Abby from “Broad City” announced last week that they were going on Birthright Israel, my heart sunk. For those who haven’t been watching, the show follows two young women from New York as they make their way through life in Manhattan. Main characters Abby and Ilana are Jewish, and their heritage is…
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Life Broad City’s ‘Jews on a Plane’ Finale Has In-Jokes For Everyone
As people of color continue to lunge against the tide of Hollywood’s systemic discrimination, the past three years of television have borne witness to a revolution of representation for a different hidden-in-plain site demographic: Jewish women. While the 1980s and 1990s ushered in an era of highly visible Jewish performers and programming, from Seinfeld to…
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The Schmooze ‘Broad City’ Goes on Birthright, Turns Jewish Anxieties Into Comic Gold
(JTA)—The “Broad City” ladies make some sort of Jewish reference or joke in almost every episode of their Comedy Central show. But Wednesday night the real-life Jews took on their Jewiest topic yet: the free Birthright trip to Israel. After spending most of the episode struggling to catch their flight, Abbi Abrams (Abbi Jacobson) and…
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