Category: Israel & Overseas
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National Young Leadership Cabinet @ Tamarack Camps
Olivia Berlin and Allison Gutman Early this month, we welcomed 24 members of the National Young Leadership Cabinet to Tamarack Camps to educate them about the I&O department. The National […]
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My First Trip to Detroit
Shai Chayoth, Israeli Camper Program Coordinator My name is Shai Chayoth and I am the Israeli Camper Program Coordinator, working out of our Israel office. In the past few months, […]
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P2G Joint Steering Committee Meeting in Israel
June 2023 By Jerry Chapman – P2G Co-Chair In the second week of June, ten JFMD Partnership2Gether Committee members and staff left for Israel to meet with our Israeli committee […]
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Spotlight on a JFMD Support Program: The Etty Hillesum Israeli Youth Theatre, Voice of Youth – “Kol Ha’Noar”
Each year a group of 75 teens, Jews and Arabs, come to the Youth Theatre up to five afternoons a week where they receive a hot meal and learn writing, […]
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Home, Family and meaning – three gifts of Shlichut
It’s not true what they say, that it’s hard to sum up three years of Shlichut – It’s actually impossible. I have written numerous pieces for the Israel & […]
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DEPARTMENT NEWS: Missions Possible
by Naomi Miller, Director of Missions After a challenging 2 years of Covid for tourism in Israel, members of the Detroit Federation have finally returned, full speed ahead. Spring 2022 […]
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SHINSHINIM CORNER: Yom’s From Far Away, Still More Connected Than Ever.
by Ron Harel May has always been a month of in-betweens. From routine to goodbyes, from spring to summer. I cannot even begin to explain what a May it has […]
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Federation News
Our first Federation mission in over two years departs this week! The participants (and staff) are excited to be heading back to our family in our Partnership2Gether region in Israel. […]
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Home
by Amit Beilin “The main difference between home and house is that a home is the place where someone lives and where they have an emotional attachment to whereas a […]
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Alexander Muss High School in Israel
by Sunny Nayberg When I was a young Russian-Israeli girl who had just immigrated to Metro-Detroit from Israel, I could not have predicted the deep passion that I would develop […]