A program that is providing first-time trips for Jewish adults to Israel produced its first engagement. Jason Trager proposed to Stacy Gastwirth by the shores of the Dead Sea on New Year’s Eve while they were on a week-long Hillel Israel 2000 tour, underwritten by Birthright Israel.
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