Barry Morrison, who has spent 35 years with the Anti-Defamation League, announced that he’s stepping down from his position as Philadelphia area director at the end of the year.
Palestinian violence and financial meltdowns aside, travel program leaders unanimously point to one cause for a dramatic drop in teenage visitors to the Jewish state over the past decade: Taglit-Birthright Israel.
Instead of simply sending money to the earthquake-ravaged parts of Haiti, students involved with a nonprofit tennis education organization joined forces with a service club at Lower Merion High School to take rebuilding efforts into their own hands.
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