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Help eligible young adults find out about a Birthright Israel trip with a focus on literature, journalism and writing. Marga ****************************** Marga Hirsch Library/Media Specialist Perelman Jewish Day School Stern Center - Wynnewood, PA Forman Center - Melrose Park, PA -----Original Message----- From: Miryam Pomerantz Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 5:17 PM Hi, As you may know, the Jewish Book Council runs many projects, in addition to scheduling author events at Jewish book festival through the Jewish Book NETWORK. This spring, we are launching a new project, unlike any of our current ones, but also dedicated to the promotion of Jewish literature and writing and its legacy. In May, the Jewish Book Council will co-sponsor, with the Mayanot Institute, the first "Israel in Print" birthright israel trip. The birthright israel program offers Jewish 18-26 year olds--who have not previously been on an organized, peer trip--a free 10-day trip to Israel to experience the country, learn about the history and culture, and just generally have an amazing, fun, whirlwind tour of Israel with their peers. Recently, "special interest" birthright trips have been forming, trips that tailor their itinieraries and gather a group of participants with a similar focus. This new "Israel in Print" is a focused on literature, journalism, and writing. It will include all of the standard elements of a birthright israel trip--like swimming in the Dead Sea, hiking Masada, taking jeep rides in the desert, visiting Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Tiberias, and Sfat--along with special activities. The partnership between Mayanot and Jewish Book Council will allow participants to see an Israel that most visitors never do - by meeting with Israel's most famous authors and journalists, respected, award-winning writers as well as the hottest up-and-coming young talent. We're very excited about this trip, but it's brand-new, and no one knows about it. Please help us spread the word. If you know of any Jewish 18-26 year old--students, grad students, friends--who is eligible for this trip and is interested in literature and journalism, please ask them to contact our office or visit www.mayanotisrael.com/jbc. The trip is tentatively scheduled for the end of May, after most universities are done for the year. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. We do have informational postcards that we could send to you to distribute, if you are interested. Thanks so much, Miri Miri Pomerantz Jewish Book Council 15 E. 26th Street New York, NY 10010 (212) 786-5157 fax: (212) 481-4174 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
