Who doesn’t love travel? Taking a trip makes you a better person. More broad-minded. More compassionate. More interesting. The destination doesn’t matter: traveling opens you to change. And change is at the heart of any good story.These are our community's stories of journeys taken that sparked growth and an embrace of the wider world. Trips that showed what really matters. Travel that changed us.
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Family September 2, 2014
by Cecily Rogers — While I was in college I studied for a semester in Italy, where I have family. I was on my way from Florence to Naples to visit them for a... Read more
Family November 7, 2014
by Ariel Goldstein — Like many Jews of the Western Hemisphere, three of my grandparents were Polish. They didn’t have great memories of the place where they were born. But... Read more
Family September 9, 2014
by Sara Linden — You travel with a partner for six months straight -- you're going to learn pretty much everything there is to know about each other. On the up side, if... Read more
World View July 14, 2014
by Adrienne Crowder — "[In] my experience of Israel...Events were always clothed in layers of nuance. All 'truths' were paradoxical...every 'bad' thing had a kernel of 'good'." Perched on the hills... Read more
World View August 19, 2014
by Andrew Ramer — I am 10, and give my therapist the Hanukkah gift my mother bought for him. He opens the slim box. A beautiful, dark green scarf. He smiles, takes out the scarf,... Read more
Jewishing July 31, 2014
by Andrew Ramer — The story of our peoplehood begins with these words that God spoke to Abraham in the book of Genesis: Go forth from your land, your birthplace, your father’s... Read more