Manhattan Jewish Experience (MJE)  is proud to announce its 15th Annual Dinner theme of “Celebrating Israel’s Vital Role at MJE.” In a time when BDS campaigns and Israel Apartheid Week are gaining progressively more ground among today’s youth, MJE realizes that it is important now more than ever to recognize Israel’s true greatness, both as a home to the Jewish people and for its significance to Jewish outreach in general and to MJE in particular.

When MJE was founded in 1998, Founder and Director Rabbi Mark Wildes created an organization whose mission was to utilize classic Jewish and Zionist teachings as well as social programs to reach out to less affiliated young Jewish professionals and reconnect them to their Jewish heritage and to Israel. In addition to lectures on Torah, question and answer sessions on any and all things Jewish, Shabbat Dinners, and Weekend Retreats, MJE offers two educational and spiritual tours of Israel every summer to its participants, led by Rabbi Wildes himself with his family. To date, 18 MJE participants have already made aliyah, and this year MJE is embarking upon an exciting new partnership with Ohr Torah Stone, the brainchild of the founding Rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue and current Chief Rabbi of the Israeli city Efrat, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, who will be receiving a special Tribute Award at the Dinner.

Manhattan Jewish Experience’s “Celebrating Israel’s Vital Role at MJE” Dinner will be held on Wednesday, April 2nd at 6:00pm at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, located at 36 Battery Place. Anyone wishing to attend, inquire about the event, or make a donation to MJE should visit the “MJE Annual Dinner” tab on their website at www.jewishexperience.org or contact Dalya Levy at [email protected]