Birthright Israel
Has anyone ever gone on or know someone who's gone on one of the Birthright Israel trips, or know anything about the program(s)? I'm looking over the dozens of options while procrastinating on numerous other important things, and the choice is frankly overwhelming; plus it's hard to get a sense of the flavor of each program when most of them provide similar descriptions. Just wondering. So far I only have the recommendation of one friend, whose travel tastes are not quite my own (e.g. he likes clubbing). I'm thinking about going next summer before I'm too old to qualify, and hopefully finding a way to extend the trip a little while to visit some cousins and roga. (I dreamt last night that I was on a birthright trip in Israel and found out that I couldn't stay longer without the tour or the something-or-other police would find and arrest me and I'd never get home, heh.)
ETA: I am strongly attracted to the March of the Living Poland/Israel trip, being focused as it is on the Holocaust and in historic and contemporary Israel under that lens, although (or perhaps because) I think it is different from the other Birthright trips in what it discusses and the places it visits.
ETA: I am strongly attracted to the March of the Living Poland/Israel trip, being focused as it is on the Holocaust and in historic and contemporary Israel under that lens, although (or perhaps because) I think it is different from the other Birthright trips in what it discusses and the places it visits.