S got back from the birthright trip. 5 students from Claremont Consortium. 2 from Pomona(my son was 1) , 2 from pitzer and 1 from scripps. the other 35 kids came from other california schools to make up the “birthright bus”.
wishing all 40 kids were from Claremont consortium but I think having the trip in June and not right after finals probably affected kids being able to go.
I am so glad he went with some Claremont kids rather than a national trip. When he came home and told me he thought all kids he met from the consortium were so nice and he might go to hillel now that he knows some jewish kids, I thought totally worth the hassle of flying him back to LAX in June for the trip and making the internship search a little harder telling employers he was taking off for 10 days in summer.
I think it makes so much sense to go on a Hillel birthright trip with kids from your home school and bring relationships back to your home campus rather than a national trip of 40 kids you might never meet again.
crossing my fingers he will go to Hillel when he gets back to school in the Fall.