Discover meaningful ways to connect with Israel and the global Jewish community through unique opportunities created for young adults.
Whether you’re looking for travel, study, cultural immersion or professional growth, these experiences are designed to help you explore your heritage in authentic, lasting ways.
Get ready to step into new environments, gain perspective and return empowered to contribute more deeply to your community at home.
Our Various
Opportunities
Get There! Israel Travel Grants
Federation’s Get There! program provides extra funding up to $10,000 to help Jewish Detroiters between 13-28 travel to Israel. Get There! is ideal for gap year and study abroad opportunities, volunteer work, school trips, internships, yeshiva and seminary attendance and more.
Taglit Birthright Israel
Your free 10-day trip to Israel starts here. This epic adventure is a gift to all eligible young Jewish adults ages 18-26. Round-trip airfare, meals, accommodations and a busload of new best friends included.
Birthright Israel Onward
Detroit Birthright Israel Onward is a life-changing, resume-building, eight-week program that helps Jewish Detroiters aged 18-34 grow personally and professionally through an internship in Israel. Even more… generous subsidies keep the cost affordable for everyone.
MASA Gap Years
A gap year in Israel with Masa Israel Journey offers college-bound high school graduates the opportunity to gain a global perspective and a taste of independent living—all while having an incredible Israel experience. MASA programs allow you to experience living independently, to see things through an international lens and to encounter Israel first-hand.
JDC Entwine
Are you ready to travel, take action and connect? JDC Entwine is building a generation of young Jews who lead and live a life of action with global Jewish responsibility at its core. Entwine explores, elevates and celebrates stories of the global Jewish community—creating one Jewish world, interconnected.
