Boy scouts

New discovery highlights Jewish scouts and identity in Syria

A rare testimony from the Alliance Israélite Universelle shows the Jewish Scout Movement in Damascus, highlighting its role in Jewish identity and culture.

 Jewish scouts in uniforms holding flags bearing the name Alliance Scouts of Damascus
 A panel at the annual Hebrew Scouts Movement of Israel conference in Eilat.

Hebrew Scouts Movement leaders praise scouting youth for wartime activism

 Ariel Yaron (left), Moshe Grimaldi (second from left), Evan Gilder (center) were among five members of a Jewish contingent of Boy Scouts who participated in a CPR rescue aboard a flight to New York on July 11, 2024.

Jewish Boy Scouts save life with CPR on flight home from New Mexico

The Tzofim Friendship Caravan

Israel's future pop stars coming back to the US after three-year hiatus


Atlanta scoutmaster Josiah Benator celebrates his 100th birthday

Benator is believed to be the oldest Jewish scoutmaster in America.

 Josiah Benator in his scoutmaster uniform.

Hebrew Scouts nearly shut down during COVID-19 crisis, ‘unthinkable’

After one century of offering informal education to Hebrew youth across the country, the movement faces extreme uncertainty due to government actions.

NEW YORK, NY - Members of the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation participate in the annual Celebrate Israel Parade on June 3, 2018 in New York City.

The Fourth of July

As a Jewish Confederate Boy Scout in the 1940s and early ’50s, I first learned about the KKK.

Gilad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah

Close to 300 new lone soldiers join IDF with Garin Zofim Tzabar

The ceremony was attended by Minister of Aliyah and Integration Sofa Landver, Dr. Miriam Adelson, as well as Sara Netanyahu and representatives from the IDF and Scouts.

Participants of Garin Zabar program for lone soldiers at opening ceremony, August 16, 2018.

Boy Scouts set world record in dreidel spinning

The Boy Scouts beat the 2014 record set in Tel Aviv.

Dreidels (illustrative)