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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

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Participants in the Nativ pre-college gap year program, affiliated with the Conservative movement, divide their time between study in Jerusalem and volunteering elsewhere in Israel. (Courtesy of Nativ)
December 22, 2023, 5:29 am
Conservative movement suspends its Israel gap-year program, citing budget woes
Long-running Nativ program shrank considerably in recent years; Conservative movement leaders lament ‘new economic realities, recruitment challenges’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Pre-army program participants, from left to right: Barak Kaufman, Ofir Behar, Eden Mimoun and Naama Altman, on October 17, 2023. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
October 21, 2023, 10:29 am
On gap year between high school and IDF service, students find purpose during wartime
Now enlisted in a wide range of volunteer activities on the home front, participants in a pre-army program – alongside some from abroad – say it’s a ‘once in a lifetime’ experience
By Gavriel Fiske
Masa Israel fellows commemorate Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day, in a ceremony at Latrun on April 25, 2023. (Courtesy of Masa Israel Journey)
October 10, 2023, 4:36 pm
As war continues, exchange and gap year programs work to keep participants safe
What had looked to be an uneventful academic year for international students has turned into a whirlwind of evacuations, head counts, and open-ended delays
By Charlie Summers and JTA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in Tel Aviv, September 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
June 4, 2020, 4:57 pm
Alumni of gap-year programs in Israel urge US Jewish groups to reject annexation
185 signatories say Netanyahu’s plan to extend sovereignty to parts of West Bank ‘threatens Palestinian human rights and endangers Israeli security’
By Marcy Oster
Year Course students this spring wear masks while volunteering. (Courtesy of Year Course/ via JTA)
May 25, 2020, 5:09 am
As colleges go virtual, US students plan to visit Israel on gap year programs
Unsure of what’s in store this fall, Americans delay matriculation, hoping to ‘ride out the wave’ of the pandemic touring and studying Hebrew — but may not gain entry to Israel
By Josefin Dolsten
November 8, 2017, 2:51 pm
Tales of a seminary delinquent
I was a cocky teenager who snuck out of the dorm and never got caught; my ‘lesbian’ friend wasn’t as lucky
Emma S. Jacobs
February 28, 2017, 3:01 pm
Emma S. Jacobs
We are women — hear us pray
The pinnacle of offensiveness, as she joined Women of the Wall for the most freeing and oppressive moments of her life
Helen Maryles Shankman
September 16, 2016, 3:01 pm
Helen Maryles Shankman
I hug him for a long time; then I let go
That moment when you realize aerogrammes are no longer part of a year of yeshiva in Israel — a mom’s perspective
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