Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism
by
Shaul Kelner
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. The most elaborate of the state-supported homeland tours that are cropping up all over the world, this tour seeks to foster in the American Jewish diaspora...