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TOI: Is the golden age of American Jewish travel to Israel ending?

In 2024 Israel saw fewer than a million tourists. Last year the numbers rose slightly, to 1.3 million tourist entries. As flights have grown scarcer and shekels more valuable, the cost of tickets has skyrocketed, with a recent study by the Jewish Federations of North America finding that edu…

Aging & Trauma Program Showcase highlights innovation in PCTI care

Aging services for older adults with a history of trauma, including Holocaust survivors, have seen extraordinary growth and developments as more care agencies embrace the person-centered, trauma-informed (PCTI) approach. 

 

“We have to talk about trauma and how it impacts us as we age.…

JI: Treasury offers guidance to Jewish groups on new ed. tax credit

Jewish advocacy groups are celebrating a new set of wonky tax guidelines released last week by the Treasury Department that offer clarity into a new federal education tax credit that they hope will help more Jewish families access day school education. 

 

...“The substance of the previ…

A New Chapter for Cabinet Alumni: Welcoming Haley Trager and Mitch Sterling

National Young Leadership Cabinet’s Alumni network is entering an exciting new chapter as Haley Trager and Mitch Sterling step up as Co-Chairs of Cabinet Alumni. 

 

Together, they will lead and support a growing network of more than 4,350 Cabinet Alumni leaders who shape Jewish communa…

eJP: Conflict flare-ups, surging shekel put Israel education travel at risk

Organizations running educational trips to Israel have faced a number of setbacks in recent years — first from the COVID-19 pandemic, then from the wars with Hamas and Iran (and Iran again) and now from the strengthening of the shekel against the dollar.

 

A new study by the Israel Educ…