Topics broadly focused on Jewish education, Jewish identity, the future of Jewish education in Latin America and the relationship between Israel and the Central and South American Jewish diaspora.
(Courtesy of Mizrachi) More than 1,000 gap-year yeshiva and seminary students celebrated Yom Yerushalayim at a pep rally sponsored by Masa Israel and hosted in partnership with World Mizrachi, designed to inspire and energize them into ambassadors for Israel as many plan to return home and get ready for college campuses in the fall.
Back-to-back events at Heichal Shlomo, held separately for men and women, were awash with music, singing, dancing and food to commemorate the anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.