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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.

 

On a Taglit-Birthright tour through Israel
Dec 22 2010 | by Jane Williams | In July, 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.
'I look up at a net hanging above the souk. It’s full of garbage and other debris. The Jewish settlers, who number about 500, have built homes above the market street. I am told the net is to protect the Palestinians below.' Photo: Rachel Marcuse.
Post Taglit-Birthright: Hebron -- 500 settlers, 2,000 soldiers, and the tensest place I've ever been
Sep 15 2010 | by Rachel Marcuse | My conclusions after spending 20 days exploring and questioning in Israel and the West Bank.
'I look up at a net hanging above the souk. It’s full of garbage and other debris. The Jewish settlers, who number about 500, have built homes above the market street. I am told the net is to protect the Palestinians below.' Photo: Rachel Marcuse.
Post Taglit-Birthright: Hebron -- 500 settlers, 2,000 soldiers and the tensest place I've ever been
Sep 15 2010 | by Rachel Marcuse | My conclusions after spending 20 days exploring and questioning in Israel and the West Bank.
'A little girl is fascinated by my camera and puts on my hat and sunglasses. She doesn't speak any English, but, as always with kids, it doesn't really matter.' Photo: Rachel Marcuse
Post Taglit-Birthright: 'We're not stereotypes'
Sep 1 2010 | by Rachel Marcuse | We enter another world, crossing the border into the West Bank, and find people with similar warmth to those we left in Israel.
Playing chess at a 'leftie' bar in Haifa, Israel. Photo: Rachel Marcuse
Post Taglit-Birthright: 'Don't do the tours in English'
Aug 25 2010 | by Rachel Marcuse | Coming out of the 'Birthright haze' to try to begin to engage with the 'pluralism' that exists in Israel and Palestine.
Playing chess at a 'leftie' bar in Haifa, Israel. Photo: Rachel Marcuse
Post Taglit-Birthright: 'Don't do the tours in English'
Aug 25 2010 | by Rachel Marcuse | Coming out of the 'Birthright haze' to try to begin to engage with the 'pluralism' that exists in Israel and Palestine.
Everyone on the bus is exhausted by the relentless pace of the tour of Israel. Photo: Rachel Marcuse
My Taglit-Birthright Israel Experience: Batmitzvah'd in Jerusalem
Aug 11 2010 | by Rachel Marcuse | 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!'
Tsfat, the centre of Jewish mysticism or Kaballah in Israel. Photo: Hannah Engel
My Taglit-Birthright Israel experience: Jewishness + community = I heart Israel
Aug 4 2010 | by Rachel Marcuse | 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
Jul 28 2010 | by rabble staff | Rachel Marcuse visits the Golan Heights in part two of her journey.
My Taglit-Birthright Israel experience: 'Outing' myself on a kibbutz
Jul 28 2010 | by Rachel Marcuse | 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.