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Lindsay Miller of Grand Rapids, Lianna
Levine of Akron, Ohio, and Lauren
Levin of Farmington Hills at the USY
International convention.
summer, at the sight of signs that read,
"Thank you Americans for supporting
us.''
"I remember not worrying about
spending too much money because I
knew their economy was struggling so I
felt as though, in part, I was giving
tzedakah by buying things there," she
says.
Last summer, the Reform movement
canceled its summer teen trips. Next
summer, it plans to resume them, but
will focus on kibbutz rather than travel
programs and expects only a few hun-
dred participants, compared with the
1,500 or so it used to send.
Birthright Israel, which expects to
send more than 6,000 young Jews to
Israel on free 10-day trips this winter,
initially hoped to send more than
10,000.
Summer programs run by centrist
Orthodoxy's main youth group saw their
numbers decrease from 625 teens in
2000 to about 200 last year, according
to Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch, the
national education director and director
of summer programs for the National
Conference of Synagogue Youth.
Rabbi Schonbuch says its too early to
tell how things will shape up for this
summer. There is obviously parental
concern about security, he says.
Interest for summer programs lagged
after the suicide attacks in downtown
Jerusalem on Dec. 1, but has since
picked up again.
USY, which sent 287 teens on its
Pilgrimage trip last summer and hopes
to at least match that number next year,
says it is working closely with the Israeli
government and the Tourism Ministry
to encourage more trips and increase the
number of visitors. In previous years,
Pilgrimage has attracted nearly 600 par-
ticipants.
Uzi Gafny, Israel's deputy commis-
sioner of tourism, urged the teens at the
convention to come fall in love with
Israel, "warts and all."
Sarah Morris, 15, of Denver says her
parents would prefer she not go to Israel,
but she wants to go on Pilgrimage this
summer.
Ultimately, Morris says she might
make aliyah. For now, though, she says
Israel needs visitors, &_.::pite the tensions.
"It worries me, she says. "But I know
I should be in Israel." I-1
Jewish News Sta f f Writer Shelli Liebman
Dorfman contributed to this story.
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