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Each visit to Israel is unique and unequivocally personal and special. There are almost no words to capture all that one’s mind processes, eyes witness, mouth tastes, nose smells and heart feels. Each visit to Israel is spiritually awakening, intellectually stimulating and magically charged.

Just having returned from my fourth visit to Israel on a two-week men’s trip sponsored by the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Program (JWRP) and led by Rabbi Yosef David of Aish HaTorah, it felt a little like my very first trip to Israel but also like I never left her. Like many others in the Diaspora, I found myself asking, “Other than making aliyah or participating in the IDF (Israel Defence Forces), what can I do to help support Israel and make her strong and secure?”