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Alumni Memories from Taglit-Birthright (Free Trips to Israel for young Jewish Adults)

Alumni Memories from Taglit-Birthright (Free Trips to Israel for young Jewish Adults)
Thursday 06, 2011

Notes From the Tour Bus

By Karen Loew

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How can young people’s first experiences of Israel be at once profound and revelatory, yet predictable and banal? This conundrum was well in place before 2000, when Taglit-Birthright Israel began offering free 10-day trips to Israel to qualifying diasporists aged 18 to 26. But the Birthright machine mass-produces the phenomenon — and now showcases it in...

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