Conference Information
SESSION 3A BACKGROUND PAPERS:
Mifgash
GOAL: Explore cross-cultural encounters and the mifgash component of Taglit as a mechanism for the trip’s effect.
CHAIR: Prof. Barry D. Berger, University of Haifa
PRESENTERS:
Fern Chertok,Brandeis University
Leaving Home: The Impact of Travel and Mifgash on Israeli and American Teens
Dr. Pnina Golan-Cook,Henrietta Szold Institute
The Mifgash in Taglit: Timing is Everything
Prof. Noam Shoval,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Breaking Barriers between Hosts and Guests: Taglit-Birthright Mifgash in Mt. Herzl
- Street-naming, tourism development and cultural conflict: the case of the Old City of Acre/Akko/Akka
- Hotel Location and Tourist Activity in Cities
- Tracking Tourism in the Digital Age
Prof. David Mittelberg,Oranim, Academic College of Education
Mutual Encounter: Reciprocal Impact in the Taglit Mifgash
- Between Authenticity and Ethnicity: Heritage Tourism and Re-ethenification Among Diaspora Jewish Youth
- Guest-Host Encounters in Diaspora- Heritage Tourism: The Taglit-Birthright Israel Mifgash (Encounter)
- Jewish Peoplehood Education
DISCUSSANT:
Prof. Daniel Pekarsky,University of Wisconsin-Madison