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Jun 20, 2025, 3:18 PM

The Birthright Exodus: From the Educator’s Eyes

From the Educator’s Noteboook We Were Supposed to Go to Pride This is what it felt like to be there — leading a magical LGBTQ+ Birthright group through 10 days of joy, three days of shelter, two days evacuated to safety...

Jun 10, 2025, 12:10 AM

California Student Uses Graduation Stage to Shine a Light on the Hostages

At a time when graduation ceremonies have become platforms for protest and polarization—especially around Israel—an 18-year-old Jewish student in Sacramento chose a different path: one of inspiration and moral courage. Graduation season is often filled with joy, relief, and pride....

Nicole Zhiqing Tan

Apr 10, 2025, 5:15 AM

Freedom: A Shared Struggle and a Sacred Responsibility

Dear readers, I don’t know about your experience, but understanding freedom can be both an inspiring and overwhelming experience. Instead of writing up my article for yesterday, I decided to email an American Christian missionary to children and adolescent living in...

Sep 2, 2024, 2:53 AM

Pressing Pause on Antisemitism Talks

Minister Eppo Bruin in conversation with a Jewish Student in advance of a Shabbat Dinner.

Last week, at a birthday party, I was approached by one of our young community members. She had just returned from an amazing trip to the Promised Land with Taglit-Birthright, and now that she was back in the Netherlands,...

Jul 1, 2024, 3:26 PM

12 tough questions, 12 simple answers about Israel

I read Gil Troy’s attempt to answer the following questions ( and felt that they needed shorter and punchier answers. He wrote: My good friend, Taglit-Birthright Israel’s CEO Gidi Mark, challenged me recently: 'Can you offer short, punchy answers to some...

Mar 28, 2024, 5:13 AM

Impact Nation, the Backstory

Back in September 2023 I, like most of us, existed in another world—one with a markedly different future. At the time I was preparing for my first trip to the Amazon rainforest to attend a small gathering of activists,...

Feb 14, 2024, 7:48 AM

I was a tour guide on Birthright's first trip back to Israel

Source: Cat Korren (author), pictured (left)

My sense of Israel crumbled on October 7, but introducing this beautiful, broken place to my group made me fall in love with it all over again

Dec 11, 2023, 12:26 AM

Bar hopping Eilat; or why I moved to Israel

It was Hanukkah 2003, and I was 19 years old on a Birthright trip. My family left Israel in 1987 when I was 3, for the promised land of America, where money awaited and the intifada wasn't a thing. My...

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

Nov 15, 2023, 5:58 AM

Disability Inclusion at Israel Rally Proves Big Progress is Here

When close to three hundred thousand people came to Washington to support Israel, fight anti-Semitism, and bring home the hostages, one of the activists was Brandon Farbstein, a dynamic disability activist and public speaker. Born with an extremely rare...

Shlomo Lifshitz

Nov 5, 2023, 7:06 PM

No Jewish response to antisemitism on campus?

Antisemitism on North American college campuses is a catastrophe! Where are the 800,000 Taglit - Birthright Israel alumni now? Why aren’t we hearing their voices? Where are all the Jewish organizations on campus? Modern antisemitism is camouflaged as “I’m not...

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