| Dear Friends,
Though it's -40 in my hometown of Chicago, the first buds of spring are starting to bloom here in Israel. We just celebrated Tu Bishvat and the TLV Secular Yeshiva's Bar Mitzvah with a special planting ceremony with Tel Aviv-Yafo Mayor Ron Huldai - and registration for our summer and fall programs is in full swing! If you know any Jewish young adults who want to spend a meaningful year with BINA
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on BINA Gap Year in Tel Aviv or MITF Tel Aviv+ please send them our way! And if you're planning a summer trip to Israel and want to do a tour or workshop with BINA, let us know! Hope to see you soon in TLV!
Warm wishes,
Elliot Glassenberg,
Deputy of International Marketing and Content
BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change
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Celebrating Tu Bishvat and BINA's Bar Mitzvah!
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Last week, on Tu Bishvat 5779, the BINA Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv celebrated its Bar Mitzvah. The staff, participants, partners and local school children gathered to mark 13 years of Jewish learning, social action and community building in south Tel Aviv. The Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Ron Huldai, joined the celebrations and spoke about the important role BINA plays in strengthening Tel Aviv-Yafo's culture of diversity and pluralism that makes the city so special.
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Brandeis Hornstein day at BINA
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We had a full morning with students and faculty of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program on their visit to BINA in Tel Aviv! We met with Israeli and international BINA participants to learn why they're spending a year learning and volunteering in south Tel Aviv. We studied Torah together, met with a Darfuri asylum seeker, and talked about what it means to be a Jewish state in 2019. And then we went for a tour of south Tel Aviv. This group joins a growing number of visitors to BINA, including: The Mandel Executive Leadership Program Fellows, the North California Rabbi's Mission of the JNF, Park Avenue Synagogue and the Metrowest Partnership.
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If you would like to organize a group activity or visit BINA, click here!
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Tel Aviv Secular Yeshiva Campus
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We're delighted to announce that we have received a grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia's Real Estate affinity group (JFRE) to refurbish part of our BINA Tel Aviv campus! The grant will support a full renovation of the ground floor of the Main Building at our Tel Aviv campus, which will serve as a library, study space and classrooms - creating a space for our program participants, IDF soldiers, officers and other visitors to learn and hang out in! Thank you to the JFRE and the Jewish Federations of North America.
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Do you know any Jewish young adults who want to change the world? Registration is now open for both BINA Gap Year in Tel Aviv (ages 18-20) and BINA's MITF Tel Aviv+ (ages 21-35)
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BINA Gap Year in Tel Aviv is the FIRST gap year to offer an international English-speaking track within a real Israeli Mechina. Participants spend 10 months living, learning and volunteering together with Israeli peers. Participants explore Israel, study Judaism and social justice, volunteer with refugees and at-risk youth, and make Israeli friends that will last a lifetime! It's an especially affordable program, with college credit available! Click here for more.
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BINA's MITF (Masa Israel Teaching Fellows) Tel Aviv+ is a BRAND NEW program for Jewish college graduates who want to spend 5 months teaching English in Tel Aviv + 5 months teaching in one of Israel's small cities (Beit Shean, Nazareth, Rahat or Ramla) and GET PAID. Participants get professional training, trips across Israel, and more! Current MITF participants and alumni get $200 for every referral! Click here for more.
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How do we repair the relationship between U.S. Jews and Israel? How do we create a new global Jewish conversation?
Ariel Levinson, co-director of BINA's Jerusalem Secular Yeshiva responds to Daniel Gordis in the Times of Israel and offers his own suggestions: "Young American Jews need to meet their Israeli counterparts... people who are similarly inquisitive about their Jewish identity in a changing world and jointly exploring their need for community and meaning..."
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New book by BINA educator, Leon Weiner Dow wins award!
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Congratulations to BINA educator Leon Wiener Dow on winning a National Jewish Book Award for his new book "The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law".
This unique and inspiring book explores Jewish law through philosophical, theological and personal reflections. Leon teaches philosophy, Talmud and Jewish law at the BINA Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv.
Mazal Tov, Leon from all the BINA family - we're so proud of you and honored we get to learn from you!
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'Amos Oz was the ultimate Secularist' by Yarin Raban
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"Amos Oz was not only a literary giant, he was also an exemplary secular Jew..."
What made Amos Oz a role model and hero for secular, cultural, progressive and unaffiliated Jews in Israel and everywhere?
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BINA staff joined the Posen Family and Posen Foundation professionals to celebrate the Foundation's 20th Birthday in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem last month. Over the last 20 years the Posen Foundation has supported Jewish Pluralistic Cultural Education programs in Israel and BINA is proud and delighted to have such committed long term partners and friends. Thank you to Jane and Felix, Daniel and Diane Posen and Yael Nakhon-Harel, Director of the Posen Foundation in Israel.
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BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change, operates under the Israeli nonprofit "Merchavim Chevra Lechinuch Vetarbut".
BINA operates under the Israeli nonprofit Merchavim, with the support of the Kibbutz Movement and the Posen Foundation. BINA is proudly funded by the UJA-Federation of New York, as well as additional supporters, including: Avi Chai Foundation, Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Federation CJA Montreal, Feldman Foundation, Gimprich Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest, Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Leichtag Foundation, Levi Lassen Foundation, Littauer Foundation, Matanel Foundation, Montefiore Endowment, Morris Levinson Foundation, Shahaf Foundation, Alan B. Slifka Foundation, Ziering Family Foundation, dozens of municipalities across Israel and hundreds of private donors.
WWW.BINA.ORG.IL/EN
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