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Kibbutz Ketura: 40 Years in the Desert

Founded by Young Judaea Year Course alumni in November 1973, mere weeks after the end of the Yom Kippur War, Kibbutz Ketura’s history has always reflected its desert home. Against […]

by Young Judaea

April 1, 2014

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Year Course Around the World

KUMA trip to Poland Diary From the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda by Stephanize Blitzer, Year Course Participant Being here in Rwanda has really made me appreciate everything I have.  […]

by Young Judaea

April 1, 2014

Year Course

Siyur Series 6: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

by Adam Nielander and Wyatt Meckler, Year Course Participants This week’s siyur to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Young Judaea Year Course in Israel highlighted for us an […]

by Young Judaea

March 18, 2014

Alumni

Siyur Series 5: The Jerusalem Corridor

by Eduardo “Lalo” Fainsod, Year Course Participant The name Shlomo Glenzer stuck with me all throughout our guided hike along Highway 1, the main road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.  […]

by Young Judaea

March 6, 2014

Alumni

Diary from Rwanda

The following Journal entries from Sarah Braginsky and Bess Brown should give you an idea of some of the activities that the Year Course participants have been doing in Rwanda […]

by Young Judaea

March 5, 2014

Alumni

A Woman, and a Judaean, at the Wall

 Women of the Wall is a Jewish organization seeking gender equality at the Western Wall that leads monthly Rosh Hodesh services for the new Jewish month in which women read […]

by Young Judaea

March 4, 2014