Making pilgrimage to Israel is an important part of the education and fostering of Jewish identity of Jews in the Diaspora. Since 1999, Birthright Israel, a partnership between American entrepreneurs and the Israeli government, has sent 500,000 Jewish young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six on a ten-day journey throughout Israel, designed to give them a sense of Israeli culture and life. The organization now offers trips out of other countries with significant Jewish populations, including the United Kingdom, Brazil and Russia, just to name a few. Trips are offered for split age groups; 18-22 and 22-26. Friends and…