…iN DETROIT JEWISH NEWS is the gap for you? Israeli gap-year programs of all kinds are attracting Jewish teens. 1 by Helene Glickman r- ----- here are endless possibili- ties as to what can be ac- complished in a year. While most Jewish high school graduates go right to college, more and more are considering gap-year programs in Israel. "Motives to have a gap year are varied depending on the personality of the student interested," says P...…
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…401111011101.011111440mpowaiwoosimmoisw teens in action teens at work by Nate Strauss by Eryn Fox Volunteer Corps Class of 2010 Adat Shalom group helps teens make volunteering part of their lives. Akiva's pre-Pesach carwash effectively got the crumbs out. abilities. have always volunteered and This year, the K.A.T. Carnival had fun with it. The same old raised money to send kids with projects, however, were getting special needs to ca...…
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…Opinion A MIX OF IDEAS Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us . Editorial The Refugee Dilemma T he Arab world has made a big deal out of the "refugee problem" — the Palestinians who left Palestine when Israel achieved statehood and Arab nations declared war on the new Jewish state. Some of the 726,000 Palestinians may have been forced out by zealous Jews enthralled with the prospect of Zionism, but most Arabs left on their own...…
…Opinion A MIX OF IDEAS Herzl In Hollywood A s I was reading Yediot Ahronot, the Israeli daily newspaper, my eye caught the most interest- ing as well as surprising item regard- ing the imminent naming of a street in Hollywood, a mere stone throw from fashionable Rodeo Drive, after Binyamin Zeev Herzl, the father of Zionism and visionary of the Jewish state as he is referred to. Admittedly, there is a Herzl Street in Tel Aviv, the street on...…
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