rabble.ca series - My Taglit-Birthright Israel experience

In July 2010, activist Rachel Marcuse spent 10 days in Israel as part of the Taglit-Birthright program -- a fully sponsored trip for young North American Jews to learn more about the country. In this series she writes about what she saw and learned about on her travels through Israel and Palestine.

Post Taglit-Birthright: Hebron -- 500 settlers, 2,000 soldiers and the tensest place I've ever been
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September 15, 2010
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Rachel Marcuse
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My conclusions after spending 20 days exploring and questioning in Israel and the West Bank.
Post Taglit-Birthright: 'We're not stereotypes'
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September 1, 2010
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Rachel Marcuse
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We enter another world, crossing the border into the West Bank, and find people with similar warmth to those we left in Israel.
Post Taglit-Birthright: 'Don't do the tours in English'
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August 25, 2010
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Rachel Marcuse
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Coming out of the 'Birthright haze' to try to begin to engage with the 'pluralism' that exists in Israel and Palestine.
My Taglit-Birthright Israel Experience: Batmitzvah'd in Jerusalem
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August 11, 2010
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Rachel Marcuse
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We visit Yad Veshem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, and on the way are told that there are lots of rich Palestinians past the fence and are pleaded with: 'Don't let the media fool you!'
My Taglit-Birthright Israel experience: Jewishness + community = I heart Israel
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August 4, 2010
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Rachel Marcuse
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Many on the trip, I speculated, would equate the genuine warmth and respect in the group with Jewishness -- as opposed to humaneness. These positive feelings would all connect back to Israel.
My Taglit-Birthright Israel experience: 'Outing' myself on a kibbutz
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July 28, 2010
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Rachel Marcuse
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Rachel Marcuse finds herself on Kibbutz Efik on day three travelling with a sponsored group of young North American Jews. This is the second of a seven part series.
My Taglit-Birthright Israel experience: Arriving in Tel Aviv
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July 21, 2010
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Rachel Marcuse
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Wanting to bear witness and see the divide between Israelis and Palestinians, Rachel Marcuse travelled with a sponsored group of young North American Jews, and writes about it for rabble.ca.

rabble.ca series - My Taglit-Birthright Israel experience

rabble.ca series - My Taglit-Birthright Israel experience

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