• A group from the Board of Jewish Education of Greater Washington (DC) is in Israel with one of the largest groups they have ever sent.

  • Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns-Amcha is in Israel with a group of 30 Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews in a program combining study and touring.

  • 55 students graduates from the Hebrew Academy of Five Towns & Rockaway High School will be studying in Israeli yeshivot this coming year.

  • An OU Solidarity Trip to Israel is arriving on Sunday to visit embattled towns and hear briefings from government and IDF officials.

  • The Teaneck Chapter of The Hebron Fund is sending a Solidarity Mission which includes visiting families of terror victims. Their message: \"We are a nation that sticks together in all times.\"

  • Directors of Chabad of Western & Southern New England and the Upper East Side are leading groups now in Israel.