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SHOFAR Initiative Featured in EJewish Philanthropy
Learn more about Milwaukee Jewish Federation's SHOFAR (Safeguarding Healthy Families and Relationships) Initiative. It focuses on child...
Tzipi Altman-Shafer and Laurie Biskowitz
Dec 20, 20181 min read


Day 9: Our Final Dinner Together
For our last night in Israel, we had a special dinner (just the Fabulous Fifteen) at a delicious Italian restaurant called Picolini. It...
Tzipi Altman-Shafer
Oct 30, 20183 min read


Day 9: Har Herzl and Final Sessions
Today we visited Har Herzl (Mt. Herzl), the cemetery of Israeli soldiers and the leaders of the Jewish People. This is always a powerful...
Tzipi Altman-Shafer and Laurie Biskowitz
Oct 30, 20182 min read


Day 8 - Banquet
What a fabulous closing banquet for our incredible trip with JWRP!! The Director of JWRP in Israel started by remembering the Pittsburgh...
Wendy Cohen
Oct 29, 20182 min read


Day 8: Masada
What an amazing experience we had this morning. An early morning journey through the desert brought us past the Dead Sea and finally to...
Donna Kleiner
Oct 29, 20182 min read


Day 8: The Dead Sea
After a delicious lunch at Masada, along with some time to shop in the Ahava company store, we made our way to the lowest place on Earth:...
Yael Stein
Oct 29, 20181 min read


Day 7: Shalom Bayit & A Visit to Tzfat
We began this long day with a moving acknowledgment by Adrienne Gold about the tragedy in Pittsburgh, my hometown. Adrienne encouraged us...
Joan Kazan
Oct 29, 20182 min read


Day 6: Shabbat in Jerusalem
Shabbat: An Island in Time It has been a surreal week being in Israel for the first time at that. You read about the country, say the...
Flo Laguardia
Oct 28, 20182 min read


Day 5 - Erev Shabbat
Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem! Our Shabbat started with a terrific concert and sing-along led by a trio of young women - a vocalist...
Lori Salinsky
Oct 27, 20181 min read


Day 5 - In Jerusalem
This morning both JWRP trips in Israel joined together at the YMCA to hear two speakers. It was amazing to see 500 women together for...
Tzipi Altman-Shafer
Oct 26, 20182 min read


Day 4, Morning in the Judean Desert
We started our day with a spectacular Prima King’s breakfast buffet then we began our descent into the Judean desert while noshing on a...
Becca Gurlanick
Oct 26, 20182 min read


Day 4, Afternoon in the Old City of Jerusalem
Memorial building at Yad Vashem We spent the first part of the afternoon visiting Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. This...

Julie Schnoll
Oct 25, 20182 min read


Day 3, Morning in Tel Aviv, JWRP Core Value: Azut D’kedusha – Courage!
Inside Independence Hall in Tel Aviv. In this room we enjoyed a wonderful speaker and video giving us a vivid understanding of how Tel...
Dana Margolis
Oct 25, 20181 min read


Day 2 Part 2: JWRP Begins with a Party!
Tonight was the opening evening of the JWRP Israel experience. We loved meeting new friends from Calabasas, Memphis and Israel. We met...
Robin Arenzon and Jen Kolsky
Oct 23, 20182 min read


Day 2 Part 1: At the GA
Today the Milwaukee JWRP group, together with a delegation from Milwaukee Jewish Federation attended the GA: The General Assembly of the...
Tziporah Altman-Shafer
Oct 23, 20183 min read


Day One
We all safely landed in Eretz Israel, thank goodness! We were met at the hotel by Hannah Rosenthal (CEO of Milwaukee Jewish Federation),...
Diane Boland
Oct 22, 20182 min read


On The Road . . .
People are on the road. Some of us are already in Israel. Some of us are on airplanes. Can't wait to all be together tomorrow! We are so...
Tziporah Altman-Shafer
Oct 21, 20181 min read


All My Bags Are Packed & I’m Ready To Go...
Thrilled to be one of 15 women representing MIlwaukee on the JWRP trip to Israel. I’ll be blogging about the experience & here are a few...
Joan Kazan
Oct 21, 20181 min read


Pre-Trip Meeting
Last night all fifteen members of our group gathered for the last time before we leave for Israel. There was so much positive energy in...
Tziporah Altman-Shafer
Oct 10, 20181 min read


JWRP MOMentum Trip to Israel
On October 22, fifteen Milwaukee women will be traveling to Israel on a Jewish Women's Renaissance Project Trip. The trip is designed for...
Tziporah Altman-Shafer
Oct 8, 20181 min read
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