Emily Umansky is a 22 year old participant from New York on Masa Israel Teaching Fellows with BINA. In this blog she talks about her experience teaching Bedouin children English in Rahat. […]
18 year old Rina Dale, from Newton, MA is spending a year on BINA Gap Year. The GAP participants, together with […]
18-year-old Rina Dale from Newton, MA is spending a year on BINA Gap Year at the Secular Yeshiva in south […]
Shachar Berkowitz-Regosin is a participant on BINA’s GAP Year in Tel Aviv. All the participants in the GAP and Mechina (pre […]
Gabi Raphael from Woodstock, NY is spending a year on BINA’s GAP Year. As part of the program, the GAP – […]
Joanna Kamhi was a participant on the MITF (Masa Israel Teaching Fellows) with BINA – originally from Vermont, Joanna returned to the US and started law school at The University of Pennsylvania this fall. Joanna writes a blog and this is her most recent post reflecting back over her experiences. […]
Four Americans arrive in Israel to take part in Masa Israel’s Teaching Fellowship in Nazareth. Pictured here are the four Americans with BINA’s Director of International Department, Dan Herman. […]
To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task. -Sophocles It is hard to remember the first time one […]
Seeing something is believing in it, but experiencing something is understanding it. I entered Al Huda School in Rahat with little to no understanding of the Bedouin culture or experience within Israeli society, but left with a love and appreciation for the culture and the people. […]
When selecting the right gap year for me, I found myself focusing on the “next big things” – the hours I would spend in the classroom poring over Jewish texts with which I’d never quite been able to connect, the volunteering experience in schools that need an extra hand and the effort I’d put into learning Hebrew. […]
