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Day 2: Walking the Old City
We all walked backward into time today by visiting the original "town center" of Tel Aviv. We learned from our guide Amir how the original Tel Aviv included and focused around a high school. We also learned that 60 Jewish residents together built a new modern city...
Day 1: Shalom! We have landed!
After waking up before sunrise on Sunday, landed in NYC for a 5 hour wait, then 11 hours in the air for Tel Aviv we finally made it. I know what you are asking yourself, "what do you do with 5 hours in a NYC airport?"Well not much!After finally landing in Tel Aviv we...
2010 Rubin Israel Experience
Several months ago, well-deserving 10 locals were selected. Each of them possesses many unique talents and qualities that that earned them a place on this exclusive Israel experience: Robin Brody, Keith Cohen, Burt Garland, Jeremy Lieb, Daniel Platschek, Ed Reggi,...
See Israel Through the Eyes of 10 First-Time Young Adult Travelers
Ten young adults, ages 27 to 40, who were selected from a competitive application process to participate in the 2010 Rubin Israel Experience, are on their way to Israel for the first time. They leave Sunday, Oct. 3, and return Wednesday, Oct. 13. Now you can see...
Thrive LIVE! to feature Jason Alexander
Thrive Live to Feature Jason Alexander
Sun., April 28, 7pm @ Peabody Opera House
Celebrate our thriving Jewish community with Jason Alexander. The “Seinfeld” actor will perform at the donor appreciation event.
Follow up on the Gaza Crisis – 2010
An update from Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., President & CEO, Jewish Federation of St. Louis Below, I share with you the recent summary of JFNA's relief efforts in the south of Israel during the Gaza crisis in November. Our community raised over $61,000 in emergency...
Yemen Pre-wedding Ceremony
Although I don't have time at this moment to post about our Thursday in Israel and probably won't be able to before Shabbat, I wanted to share pictures from the day so that families and friends can see them. Know that most of the photographs are from the Kibbutz...
Days Five – Six
We know. No blog update for days. Talk to Margo. She has jam-packed our days such that there has literally been no time to blog. There are going to be a lot of pictures. Look at all of them. We have been to some incredible places the last few days.Day Five -- Tuesday...
Day Four — Monday
Yes, I had a little "link" problem. Please try to view the photographs from Day Three again...the link is fixed and there are more pictures than were originally posted. You can see them HERENow to day four...We started off light. The Beit Canada absorption center...
Day Three — Sunday
It started off as a normal Rubin-ite day--breakfast outdoors. We were scheduled to go to the Temple Mount, a site holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians, and then to the Holy Sepulcher with visits to the site of Jesus' crucifixion and burial.As you may have read in the...