Originally posted at Jerusalem Post featuring Fellow Dana Shakarchy
Are you ready to get challenged?” shouts the group leader, standing in the center square of the Jewish quarter in the Old City.
A collection of 41 young men and women, prepared and dressed for the new day’s challenge, respond with a loud affirmative.
No, this isn’t the Israeli premier of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. But it is not far from it.
In fact, it is Taglit-Birthright’s first ever “Israel Challenge,” an alternative to the traditional all-expenses-paid trips that have brought 250,000 Diaspora Jews from around the globe to Israel since Birthright was established ten years ago.
The brainchild of Shorashim, a Birthright-accredited trip organizer, the “Israel Challenge,” is a ten-day series of daily challenges and competitions across the nation. According to organizers, the idea was spawned from such reality television shows as The Amazing Race and The Biggest Loser, in which contestants race to particular locations and compete to lose the most weight, respectively.
Organizers hope that this twist on the popular national tours could encourage even larger enrollment while also offering an alternative means of exploring Israel, parallel to specialty trips accommodating outdoor adventure-seekers and even dancers. Journalists and video crews have already tagged along with this experimental trip that set off last Thursday. Continue reading at http://www.jpost.com/LocalIsrael/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=179227.
Are you ready to get challenged?” shouts the group leader, standing in the center square of the Jewish quarter in the Old City.
A collection of 41 young men and women, prepared and dressed for the new day’s challenge, respond with a loud affirmative.
No, this isn’t the Israeli premier of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. But it is not far from it.
In fact, it is Taglit-Birthright’s first ever “Israel Challenge,” an alternative to the traditional all-expenses-paid trips that have brought 250,000 Diaspora Jews from around the globe to Israel since Birthright was established ten years ago.
The brainchild of Shorashim, a Birthright-accredited trip organizer, the “Israel Challenge,” is a ten-day series of daily challenges and competitions across the nation. According to organizers, the idea was spawned from such reality television shows as The Amazing Race and The Biggest Loser, in which contestants race to particular locations and compete to lose the most weight, respectively.
Organizers hope that this twist on the popular national tours could encourage even larger enrollment while also offering an alternative means of exploring Israel, parallel to specialty trips accommodating outdoor adventure-seekers and even dancers. Journalists and video crews have already tagged along with this experimental trip that set off last Thursday. Continue reading at http://www.jpost.com/LocalIsrael/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=179227.
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