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Oct 3, 2019

A Life-Changing Experience: Registration Open for 2020 March of the Living

“I was angry and upset. Why were families torn apart, why were people tortured for doing nothing wrong, and why didn’t anybody do anything to stop them?”

2019 March of the Living participant Sara Margolis and 26 other high school seniors were trying to make sense of the visit to the s…

Jul 31, 2019

Onward Israel Cincinnati 2019 Week 7: The End

56 days later, our experience in Israel has come to an end. We just packed up our bags and cleaned out our rooms before heading to the airport to catch our various flights back home and around the world. Not all of us are going back to the states right away, but what matters is we all finish…

Jul 26, 2019

Onward Israel Cincinnati 2019 Week 6: Chuggim around Tel Aviv

Hi, it’s Will Coleman. In less than one week, the 2019 Cincinnati Onward Israel participants will return home from a near-two-month experience abroad. Our respective internships are coming to an end in the next few days, but there’s much more than work going into the next week. We’ll h…

Jul 17, 2019

Onward Israel 2019 Week 5: Be’er Sheva and Southern Fun

As our summer quickly comes to an end, we face the inevitable final times we do things together as a group. Sunday, we took our third and final day trip to Be’er Sheva and Kfar Aza. This excursion wasn’t as glamorous as our first two, but it gave us a different perspective on what living…

Jul 15, 2019

Onward Israel Cincinnati 2019: Meet Our Vlogger

My name is Ben Ruskin and I'm a film student at The Ohio State University. I'm in the Moving Image Production major with minors in Screenwriting and Film Studies. I'm passionate about film and I love watching television shows, especially if they are made by Donald Glover. The summer I am tak…