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Hillel at Virginia Tech
- Jun 2, 2018
- 2 min
Summer '18: Birthright Day 10
While preparing for my Birthright trip, I wasn’t completely sure what to expect. Although I had heard from several friends that the ten d...
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Hillel at Virginia Tech
- Jun 1, 2018
- 2 min
Summer '18: Birthright Day 9
When I woke up today, it was still extremely dark inside the Bedouin camp. The sun had yet to come up but we had an early start at 6:00, ...
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Hillel at Virginia Tech
- May 30, 2018
- 3 min
Summer '18: Birthright Day 6
Tuesday was a wonderful adventure-filled day with an array of emotions. We started the day off with a celebration of Jerusalem. We drove ...
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Hillel at Virginia Tech
- May 30, 2018
- 1 min
Summer '18: Birthright Day 5
Today was our bus’s turn to participate in Taglit Tel Aviv Day, where a ton of birthright groups came to Tel Aviv, explored, and particip...
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Hillel at Virginia Tech
- May 29, 2018
- 1 min
Summer '18: Birthright Day 4
Today, we dove into the heating topic of middle eastern geopolitics. Joey, from the university in Zefat, highlighted the shift in land ow...
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Hillel at Virginia Tech
- May 25, 2018
- 1 min
Summer '18: Birthright Day 2
When we first got to Mount Bental, I was shocked by how close we were to Syria and Lebanon. It made me realize how important it was to ha...
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Hillel at Virginia Tech
- May 24, 2018
- 1 min
Summer '18 Birthright: Day 1
My day started at 6 AM est time, when I flew out of Dulles to JFK, from JFK to Zurich, Switzerland, and then finally to Israel. Our trave...
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