Birthright israel officials dropped a participant upon learning that after the program, she planned to join another group in a trip through the Palestinian territories.
As the only Israeli pro athlete playing in Ukraine, Afik Nissim has had to make hard choices between keeping Shabbat and furthering his basketball dreams.
A recent “healing concert” was one Mississippi city’s way of thanking the young Jewish volunteers for helping in the wake of last year’s Hurricane Katrina, which overwhelmed Natchez with stricken refugees from New Orleans.
