Christmas and Chanukah at Hebrew University Of Jerusalem After my first Skilled Volunteer experience in 2016, I said that my days as a...

Since 1998 I have spent some time almost every year in Israel. For the first few years, I used my vacation to see places and people I...

For one month I lived like an Israeli – going to work each day, getting a bus pass, taking buses all over the city of Jerusalem, shopping...

Israel…… Even writing the Word brings tears to my eyes.  This is not a trip that you can simply make by reserving flight, hotel, and...

For my 2016 Skilled Volunteers for Israel (SVFI) volunteer gig, I deliberately chose a different type activity than my 2015 SVFI...

Three days a week for four weeks this spring, I walked through the Jaffa Gate into the Old City of Jerusalem, weaving my way on the...

I had been looking to explore another world—a space to give me purpose, pause, and reflection. I needed to briefly step aside from my...

I served as a Skilled Volunteer for Israel, assisting a child welfare agency, Bayit L’chol Yeled (BiLY), from mid-August through...

I am so grateful to Skilled Volunteers for connecting me with ORAM International. Terry and Marla worked with me to find a placement that...

Submitted by Howard Schneider, May 4, 2015, Beersheba, Israel A very busy yet interesting day. I arose at 7 to meet my ride to...

In one room, four pre-teen girls closely followed the complicated sequence of Zumba steps their teacher, Lisa, was doing in time to the...

“Collaboration” could easily be my middle name. My professional life within the educational, nonprofit world depended on working closely...

I volunteered at Be-Atzmi, an important Israeli NGO working with unemployed and underprivileged Israelis to integrate them into stable...

One week from now I will be somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, on my way back to Pittsburgh.  Much has happened since my last post in...

My goals when I applied to Skilled Volunteers for Israel were simple: find an “excuse” to spend a few months in Israel; reconnect with...

I was really thrilled this summer to come to Israel: it’s not my first trip there (my 8th, actually) nor is it the first time I...

Professor Lewis Aptekar delivers Psycho-Social Training in Tel Aviv to asylum seekers from Eritrea and the Sudan In late August of 2012,...

Lionel Rabie has extensive experience in the food and hospitality industry.  He put his business experience to work volunteering to...

Skilled Volunteers for Israel placed Mordecai Walfish  as a volunteer archivist with the Mandel Foundation.  Read about his experience...

Of Interest: HaAretz (25 August 2011) article about the first African refugee to start Israel’s pre-army national service program.   Tom...