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Tzipi Altman-Shafer
- Oct 30, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Tzipi Altman-Shafer and Laurie Biskowitz
- Oct 30, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Wendy Cohen
- Oct 29, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Donna Kleiner
- Oct 29, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Yael Stein
- Oct 29, 2018
- 1 min
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:...
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Joan Kazan
- Oct 29, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Flo Laguardia
- Oct 28, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Lori Salinsky
- Oct 27, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Tzipi Altman-Shafer
- Oct 26, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Becca Gurlanick
- Oct 26, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Julie Schnoll
- Oct 25, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Dana Margolis
- Oct 25, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Robin Arenzon and Jen Kolsky
- Oct 23, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Tziporah Altman-Shafer
- Oct 23, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Diane Boland
- Oct 22, 2018
- 2 min
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),...
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Tziporah Altman-Shafer
- Oct 21, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Joan Kazan
- Oct 21, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Tziporah Altman-Shafer
- Oct 10, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Tziporah Altman-Shafer
- Oct 8, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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