Jonathan Madoff, at The Blogs

Jonathan Madoff

Jun 13, 2018, 3:20 PM

Getting Away to Get Ahead: The Case for High School Semester in Israel Programs

Sometimes you need to get away to get ahead — especially if you are a North American teenager. It’s June, and for high school seniors it’s time for graduation and excitement about heading off to college in the fall. These last...

Jan 5, 2018, 11:18 AM

My community is bigger than your button

In this era of “my button is bigger than yours,” the words ‘destabilizing’ and ‘unsettling’ come to mind. I am transported back in time to 2009, just after I made Aliya, when I was hearing the rhetoric coming out...

About Me

Jonathan is the director of Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim (TRY), a high school study abroad program in Israel. Jonathan grew up in Owings Mills, Maryland and made Aliya in 2009. He holds an MSW from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and worked as a foster care and high school social worker in Southwest and North Philadelphia before moving to Israel. Jonathan lives with his wife Roni, and son, Yuval, in Jerusalem.