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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Washington, D. C.
he tourist industry in Israel is
suffering, but you wouldn't
know it from the interest in
Israel programs at a Dec. 23-
27 gathering at Marriott Wardman Park
Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Security concerns and fear of violence
may cause many to worry about travel-
ing to Israel, but among the 1,150 teen-
agers at the United Synagogue Youth
international convention were those
who could barely contain their enthusi-
asm at the prospect of going to the
Jewish state.
Participants who signed up for this
summer's USY Israel programs jumped
up and down, shouting slogans in sup-
port of Israel, wearing blue-and-white T-
shirts that read, "I Care and I'm Going."
After a convention program on Israel
travel, Dayna Fidler of West Bloomfield;
who visited Israel last summer on the
USY Spain/Israel Pilgrimage, says, "It
really made me want to go back."
"I think it is important to travel to
Israel," says Fidler, who attended the
convention as president of USY's
Central Region. All the studying and
learning about it in school does not do
justice to what you can experience by
actually being there."
The enthusiasm at the convention
came as the Conservative movement
like other U.S. Jewish groups — tries to
rally the number of participants in its
Israel programs.
"We have to get kids to put Israel on
the option list," says Rabbi Jerome
Epstein, executive vice president of the
New York City-based United Synagogue
of Conservative Judaism.
"I think it is very important that kids
go to Israel and travel there," says
Lauren Levin, 16, of Farmington Hills,
who attended the convention. "I think
we need to support Israel. They proba-
bly lose a lot of money with all the
tourists gone. We also need to be there,
to show our faith in the country and
know that it will get better."
Rabbi Epstein says an Israel trip is a
first step to further commitment to
Israel, as well as a way to experience
Conservative Judaism in Israel.
Yet, security and lower attendance on
its Israel trips are real challenges as the
Conservative movement celebrates
USY's 50th anniversary. It is a time for
introspection, Rabbi Epstein says, and to
assess how to keep USYers involved
through Nativ, the movement's one-year
study and kibbutz program in Israel
after high school; and Koach, the move-
ment's college outreach program in the
United States.
Recognizing that parents are the
group to win over, USY recently sent
parents whose kids might take part in
Nativ or the summer teen Pilgrimage
trip to see things for themselves in Israel.
The parents were in Israel during sui-
cide bombings in early December, yet
they returned reassured enough that
they were willing to send their children
and convince other parents that Israel
was safe, says Conservative movement
leaders.
Certainly last year's Pilgrimage and
Nativ trips had increased security Nativ
participants didn't use public buses.
"I felt totally safe all summer," Fidler
says of her 2001 USY trip. "There were
safety precautions taken. We weren't
allowed to go to Ben-Yehudah Street [in
Jerusalem] or any major malls and the
last week we were not allowed to visit
the Old City. USY brought vendors
from Ben-Yehudah Street to us."
Teens say their parents were worried,
but hundreds of teens turned out for the
convention's Israel programs event, and
50 teens wanted to be interviewed for
Nativ.
Fidler was moved, while in Israel last