Build & Be Built
Peter Rothbart is a singer-songwriter, editor, freelance writer, sustainable agriculture advocate and the founder of a lawn-sharing communal gardening project. He came to Israel for the first time in 2007 with Livnot U’Lehibanot when Livnot was still running Taglit-Birthright trips. Read More
Shalom Chevre! My name is Alana Cain and I am a senior at the University of Florida. Following my freshman year of college I decided to go on Birthright with my friends and knew that I wanted to extend my Read More
Edyth Geiger and the Safed English Library One of the places that Livnot always sends volunteers is to the Edyth Geiger English Library in Tzfat (also sometimes spelled Safed), Israel. While at Livnot “I volunteered at the Edyth H. Geiger Read More
Alumni Spotlight on Stuart Fried After picking avocados and learning Hebrew in an Ulpan on a Kibbutz near Hadera, Stuart Fried started looking for something a little more meaningful to do while in Israel. He somehow heard about Aharon and Read More
It’s not everyday that you get to step into an almost 200 year old family business and create a product using a recipe equally as old–but today a friend and I did just that. We walked into the Kadosh Tzfat Read More
From Livnot Galilee Fellowship to Kent Hillel Taking the Tzfat experience home to Ohio When Jacob Rosen, a native Ohioan, began his search for an immersive Israel program, he had not yet heard of Livnot U’Lehibanot. Happening upon Livnot’s site Read More
Ohio Scholarship & Grant Opportunities Thinking about coming to Israel this summer, but feeling like the trip is a bit over your budget? Here at Livnot, we use every resource possible to try and help our chevre get their time of Read More
Rabbi Mois Navon Yeshiva Mercaz Harav Kook I first learned of Livnot through my then-to-be wife, Deena nee Laufer, who had done a Livnot program and was very enthusiastic about its positive influence on her view, Jewish beliefs, and practice. Read More
Rabbi Idit Jacques Jewish Federation of Columbus When I was in my mid-twenties, I was contemplating a career change to become a Jewish professional. The process I needed was to explore myself, explore Judaism, and explore my place in the Read More
Rabbi Baruch Halevi Congregation Shirat Hayam Growing up I was completely uninspired by Judaism and unengaged by my synagogue or the Jewish community. And so it was no surprise that when I came of age I walked away from Judaism: Read More