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A Shared Journey Home
Four weeks in Israel with camp friends. Teens explore, learn, hike, laugh, and grow through a living classroom. Adventure meets identity with trusted partners and caring staff at every step of the way.
We travel as one camp community, connect with the land and people, and come home with confidence, stories, and lifelong friends.
Pack Your Curiosity
Together with friends from camp and across the West Coast, teens join an immersive traveling Jewish community. The program is a unique four week summer filled with discovery, challenge, and joy. After traveling, touring, hiking, climbing, exploring, and learning, participants return with personal accomplishments, meaningful memories, and friendships that last.
Deepening Jewish Identity
This experience is a capstone in the camp journey. Teens see Israel up close, meet people who bring history and culture to life, and deepen Jewish identity. Daily adventures open space for leadership, reflection, and connection. It is travel with purpose, a summer that shapes who they are and how they lead.
Safety First, Wonder Always
Our Israel partner coordinates logistics and security with seasoned professionals. Groups travel on planned itineraries, use vetted vendors, and follow current guidance. Learning is active and engaging, balancing culture, nature, and spiritual moments so teens feel supported and inspired throughout.
Who It's For
The trip is designed for teens from our camps and the wider West Coast Reform community who are ready for an independent, growth focused summer. Groups travel together for four weeks, supported by a values-based team while exploring Israel from north to south.
Support for Families
Incentive grants of up to $3,250 dollars are available.Instructions on how to apply for scholarship and vouchers are provided after families register for the Israel program. You can also ask your Rabbi, local Federation, or our office about other resources for the Israel trip.
250 dollar NFTY in Israel Gift Certificate
For anyone who became a Bar or Bat Mitzvah at a Reform congregation. Scan or photograph the certificate and email to nftyisrael@urj.org.
Root one Fellowship
RootOne helps thousands of Jewish teens travel to Israel for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, seeded by a generous gift from The Marcus Foundation and powered by The Jewish Education Project. Applicants may receive up to $3,000 off an Israel experience with the RootOne voucher.
https://rootone.org
Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps Financial Aid
Download the form, complete it, and send with your most recent tax return to:
Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps
3663 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Forms and financials are due by February 15. Decision letters are anticipated by March 15.
Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles Grant Opportunities
Due May 1. See the Federation site for details.
Harold and Jeane Grossman Teen Israel Experience Scholarship
For applicants in the Phoenix, Arizona area.
Passports to Jewish Life Award Program
Through Jewish Federation and Family Services of Orange County. Up to $1,000. Applicants must live in Orange County. Applications are typically available by mid January. Contact Kathleen Mellon, Director of Community Planning and Development, at kathleen@jffs.org.
Ready, Set, Yalla
You may know this trip as NFTY in Israel. It is the same program, now called Yalla! Israel.Questions before you register? Email Adrian Taha-Green at adrian@wbtcamps.org.