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The Yahel Blog
Insights and reflections from our community of changemakers, partners, and participants—where service meets real life.
"This Land Was Made for You and Me"
Dana is a current fellow with the Yahel Social Change Fellowship 2019-2020 cohort, living and volunteering in Lod. I volunteer at a place...
Dec 24, 20193 min read
What Being in Israel has Taught Me About Being Jewish in the Diaspora
Leora is a current fellow with the Yahel Social Change Fellowship 2019-2020 cohort, living and volunteering in Rishon LeZion. Read her...
Dec 17, 20194 min read
Meet a fellow: Tasha!
Tasha is a current fellow with the Yahel Social Change Fellowship 2019-2020 cohort, living and volunteering in Lod. Here, she gives us...
Dec 15, 20193 min read
Yahel Through Song
Today's blog post is from Alan, a member of the 2019-2020 Yahel Social Change Fellowship. Alan is living for 9 months in Rishon Lezion....
Dec 13, 20191 min read
Alumni Spotlight: Tash
Tash is a Yahel Social Change Fellowship alumna from the 2016-17 cohort. She just represented Yahel at the Masa Israel conference in...
Dec 6, 20192 min read
Building Communities in Israel
Today's blog post is written by Claire, a member of the 2019-2020 Yahel Social Change Fellowship. Claire is living for 9 months in Lod....
Dec 4, 20193 min read
Encounters in English Language Learning
Today's blog post is written by Amanda, a member of the 2019-2020 Yahel Social Change Fellowship. Hannah is living for 9 months in the...
Nov 28, 20193 min read
"Everything as usual"
Today's blog post is written by Hannah, a member of the 2019-2020 Yahel Social Change Fellowship. Hannah is living for 9 months in the...
Nov 18, 20193 min read
Integration Is Key
Today's blog post is written by Emily, a member of the 2019-2020 Yahel Social Change Fellowship. Emily is living and volunteering for 9...
Nov 14, 20193 min read
Chaggim in The Land
Today's blog post is written by Rose, a member of the 2019-2020 Yahel Social Change Fellowship. Rose is living and volunteering for 9...
Nov 5, 20196 min read
On Identity - זהות
Today's blogpost was written by Maya Kitra Vizel-Schwartz, a Yahel Social Change fellow living, learning and volunteering for 9-months in...
Oct 29, 20194 min read
A Social Worker's Reflection on her Time in Ramat Eliyahu
This post was written by Aimee Ascolese, a current MSW student at Rutgers University and an alum of a Yahel and Rutgers Study Abroad...
Sep 16, 20192 min read
Mixed City, Separate Lives
Today's blogpost was written by Sarah Grace Rogers, a recent alum of the 2019 Social Justice and Community Services Internship program in...
Aug 13, 20192 min read
The Story of This Photo
Today's blogpost was written by Emerson Karsh Lomban, a Yahel Onward Israel Participant, learning and interning for two-months in Haifa...
Jul 24, 20194 min read
Hopes, Fears, and Emotions: Impressions of Israel’s Racialized Reality
Today's blog was written by Yahel staff members in response to the shooting of Solomon Tekah and the resulting protests. All interviewees...
Jul 4, 20196 min read
Ramat Eliyahu - I Found A Community
Today's blogpost was written by Ethan Harrington-Smith, a Yahel Social Change fellow living, learning and volunteering for 9-months in t
Jun 25, 20194 min read
The Power of Stories
Today's blogpost was written by Mo Branchfeld, a Yahel Social Change fellow living, learning and volunteering for 9-months in the city of...
Jun 25, 20193 min read
Contributing to a Process of Social Change: My Internship experience with the Israel Center for Educ
Today's blogpost was written by Shira Zilberstein, a Yahel Social Change fellow living, learning and volunteering for 9-months in the...
Jun 18, 20193 min read
Israel through Poetry
Today's blogpost was written by Kayla Schneider-Smith, a Yahel Social Change fellow living, learning and volunteering for 9-months in the...
Jun 11, 20195 min read
Towards More Inclusive and Unbiased Reporting of Israel’s Arab Society
The depiction of Arab society in Israeli mainstream media, however, is often unfavorable, skewed, or simply nonexistent. Not only are Arabs
Jun 10, 20193 min read
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