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Birthright Adds Eligibility
For Its Free Israel Trips
JNS.org — The Taglit-Birthright Israel
program has expanded eligibility
for its free 10-day trips to Israel for
Jewish young adults ages 18-26. Those
who went on an educational trip to
Israel during high school were previ-
ously not eligible for Birthright trips,
but can now participate, said Noa
Bauer, Birthright's vice president of
international marketing.
Birthright's eligibility guidelines
previously stated, "If you have been
to Israel before but only with your
family or on other personal business,
you are still eligible. However, if you
have been to Israel as part of a tour-
ing group, educational program, study
program or an organized extended
residential program since you were 12
years old, you are not eligible"
While those who have taken edu-
cational trips to Israel after turning
18 are still not eligible for Birthright,
youths who took such trips before 18
can now go on Birthright from ages
18-26, Bauer said.
"It was a matter of funding" Bauer
said, "and I think today you see more
anti-Israel things on campus. We
realized over the years that people
that have been to Israel again have
more confidence for talking about
Israel and geopolitics and anything
pertaining to Israel after visiting with
Birthright Israel. I think we're one
of the best platforms to do that for
college students!'
In the 13-plus years since phi-
lanthropists Charles Bronfman and
Michael Steinhardt joined forces with
the Israeli government, the Jewish
Agency for Israel, global Jewish com-
munities and other philanthropists
to fund Birthright, the program has
taken about 350,000 young Jews to
Israel.
Technion Offers One-Year
MBA Program In Startups
Technion — Israel Institute of
Technology is offering an internation-
al MBA program aimed at entrepre-
neurs interested in gaining practical
startup experience
Technion's Start-uP MBA launches
in October and takes place in the new
Technion urban campus in the Sarona
Center, across the street from Azrieli
Towers in Tel Aviv.
More than 70 percent of the found-
ers and managers of Israel's high-tech
companies are Technion graduates,
and two-thirds of Israeli companies
listed on NASDAQ were founded or
led by Technion alumni.
For information, email info@
technionMBA.com or call (718) 838-
3533.
Yale Prof To Speak On
Beginnings Of Judaism
The Cohn-Haddow
Center for Judaic
Studies at Wayne
State University and
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek are co-spon-
soring a free lecture
by Hindy Najman,
Hindy Najman
associate professor
of religious studies at
Yale University, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9,
at the Southfield synagogue.
Najman, the daughter of Sherrie and
Cantor-Emeritus Chaim Najman of
Shaarey Zedek, is a graduate of Hillel
Day School in Farmington Hills and
Akiva Hebrew Day School in Southfield.
She received her Ph.D. in Jewish studies
from Harvard University. Her lecture is
titled "The Beginnings of Judaism"
Like many other scholars in Jewish
studies, Najman sees her academic
endeavors as complementing a more
personal quest. "I am engaged in figur-
ing out how to be a Jew in and of this
world" she said, "how to give back
to the world as a Jew, and how to be
influenced and transformed by the
world around us. This involves a kind
of optimism: the belief that there is
improvement as we move forward"
With this in mind, her lecture will
explore how, in response to the destruc-
tion of the Second Temple, Jews imagi-
natively "reinterpreted and rebooted"
the past in ways that met the needs of
the present and enabled Judaism to sur-
vive and thrive into the future.
"The experience of traumatic
destruction, the recovery from trauma
and the successful reconstitution of
Judaism against all odds" she said,
"have become essential aspects of our
tradition. We have been able to access
this sad but hope-inspiring dimension
of Judaism in order to respond to more
recent tragedies!'
For information, call (313) 577-2679
or cohnhaddowcenter@wayne.edu ; or
visit www.judaicstudies.wayne.edu or
on Facebook.
Pediatric Headache Center
Established At Beaumont
Beaumont Children's Hospital has
opened a Headache Center offering
comprehensive, specialized care for
children and adolescents who experi-
ence headaches.
The Royal Oak-based center's medi-
cal director, Elizabeth Leleszi, M.D.,
a pediatric neurologist, said, "Using
headache diagnostic criteria, combined
with a patient history and neurologi-
cal exam, a pain management plan is
developed to decrease the frequency
and severity of the headaches!'
For information, call (248) 551-7370.