by mweeks | Nov 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
By Ariel Fogelman, Director of URJ’s Yallah! Israel In Israel, Thanksgiving is a ghost holiday, something you only see in movies. For me, growing up in the old city of Jerusalem, it would have been another forgotten date on the Gregorian calendar. Instead, every...
by mkoenig | Jul 22, 2024 | Summer 2024, Uncategorized
Written by Ben Plancey, Yallah! 2024 Participant The past couple of days have been both serious and fun. Yesterday, we visited a hospital home called “Save a Child’s Heart,” where we learned about the help the organization provides to children from all over the world...
by mkoenig | Jul 22, 2024 | Summer 2024, Uncategorized
Take a look through Josh Gelman’s eyes of Week 2 on Yallah! Israel ( Yallah! 2024 Participant)
by mkoenig | Jul 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Our campers were lucky enough to spend a Shabbat with Rabbi Rick Jacobs on Kibbutz Mashaabei Sadeh in the Negev. “Many had just arrived in Israel from Poland where they experienced the soul shattering sites of the Holocaust. Our Shabbat service was spirited, our...
by Jess James | Apr 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
By: Ariel Fogelman, Director of Yallah! Israel For three thousand years the story of Passover has been a story of hope. In the book of Exodus chapter 12, all the details of the holiday are given. The people of Israel are still slaves and cannot celebrate anything in...
by Jess James | Apr 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Andrea Beck, parent of 2024 Yallah! Israel participant My best friend, her parents, my parents, and some woman I talked to at a party last week are all against me sending my 16-year-old daughter on her teen tour to Israel. This tour is a capstone experience for...
