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EXPERIENCE page 5
experience as a strategic contri-
bution to the battle for Jewish
survival. It is a discovery which,
while late, is nevertheless wel-
come.
For the past two or three years,
organized Jewish communities
throughout the world have ac-
knowledged that sending a young
Jewish person on a quality, edu-
cational trip to Israel with his
peers will awaken Jewish con-
sciousness.
Today, our own Detroit Jew-
ish community is searching for
answers to the issues that con-
cern the future of young Jews in
the community and their survival
as Jews. We should applaud the
fact that the Israel experience
rates high on the community pri-
ority list.
The Ben Teitel Charitable
Trust should be commended as a.
pioneer in these efforts, and for
being willing to support the Jew-
ish Federation's efforts on behalf
of the Israel experience.
Throughout the years since I
first staffed an Israel program for
Habonim teens from London, I
have seen the proof that quality
Israel experiences can have a pro-
found effect on the participants.
It comes from a combination of
sunrises at Masada, visits to Yad
Vashem, discotheques on the
shores of the Galilee, and home
hospitality with Israeli teen-
agers. I had the pleasure of en-
joying the effects once again in
Temple Israel's high school a few
weeks ago.
I had met with this group of
teens a few times before their
trips last summer and always
found them to be a great bunch
of young people. But after the
summer, and after they had ex-
perienced the famous Rabbi Yed-
wab Israel Trip, I found them
totally transformed.
To explain why the Israel ex-
perience works, one may only
speculate as to what actually
transpires in the minds and
hearts of those participants.
Possibly it is the fact that be-
ing in Israel for any person is like
parachuting into a multi-senso-
ry adventure that combines the
colors, sounds, smells and tastes
of youthful fun and chutzpah,
with a sense of proud and dy-
namic Jewish ownership.
Seeing a chanukiah (menorah)
at Twelve Oaks is gratifying, but
for a young Israeli, accustomed
to singing the "Hatikvah" at a
basketball game, every day has
its "Jewish experience."
That, of course, is the begin-
ning of an identification with Is-
rael that is so difficult to create
among a generation who did not
experience the Yom Kippur War,
let alone the pre-state days. Most
effective are the encounter mod-
ules that have become integral to
all quality Israel programs. With
these modules, the participants
are not passively guided around
historical sights, but instead
learn about Israel and about
themselves alongside Israelis
their own age.
The teens from Temple Israel
were not the only ones from
Metro Detroit in Israel last sum-
mer. There were 210 young peo-
ple from this area, including
Federation's own high school se-
mester program, Project Discov-
ery.
They represented the Conser-
vative, Reform and Orthodox.
They were affiliated with Habon-
im, Young Judaea and BBYO.
They volunteered on kibbutzim
and studied Hebrew.
There are dynamic plans to
take even more teens in the fu-
ture. In Detroit, there is more
scholarship money available then
ever before. As a result of the es-
tablishment of the Michigan/Is-
rael Connection, better
marketing of the Israel experi-
ence makes the information eas-
ily accessible and user-friendly.
The Fresh Air Society and the
JCC will jointly take a group of
teens to Israel this year. In the
summer of 1996, this group will
join the large Community Teen
Trip currently being planned by
the Agency for Jewish Education
and the Michigan/Israel Con-
nection, to include a rich pre-trip
and post-trip educational pro-
gram.
Some leaders
look back to
a trip 20
years ago.
The opportunities and the
means are available Now it is up
to their parents. Will the Jewish
youngsters attend expensive spe-
cialist camps in the U.S., or will
they be lucky enough to partici-
pate in the sweet-tasting Israel
experience?
Summer jobs and vacations
are all very important, and some
parents may decide against an
Israel experience for their chil-
dren at this point in time. But
many others will have recognized
the outstanding opportunity for
their children's growth.
Seizing the moment, allowing
their teen-agers the opportunity
of a lifetime, they will reap the
rewards of committed, Jewishly
involved young adults. 0
Jeff Kaye is community shaliach
for metropolitan Detroit.
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