"Traveling on an organized synagogue trip can be a wonderful experience! Congregants who participate not only become more connected with Jewish history, but also become more connected to their fellow congregants as well. When Israel is the destination, for many, it becomes more of a pilgrimage than a vacation. It provides the opportunity to not only increase their personal connection to the Jewish people and their heritage, but to increase their own personal spirituality as well as understand the geopolitical nature of what’s going on in the Middle East."