See http://jewishstudies.lafayette.edu/opportunities/ for additional opportunities for study, travel, internships, prizes, etc. related to Jewish Studies, including pre-approved study abroad programs.

Adamah Adventures: Trek Leaders: Trek leaders wanted for Jewish outdoor adventure summer camp for teens in the Atlanta and Southeast region. Start hiring in the Fall for summer positions. Must be over the age of 21.

ADAMAH: The Jewish Environmental Fellowship: A 3-month leadership training program for Jewish young adults — ages 20–29 — in the summer or fall that integrates organic farming, sustainable living, Jewish learning, teaching, and contemplative spiritual practice. Located at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Connecticut.

AJC’s Goldman Fellowship Program: Designed to develop future leaders in the areas of international and domestic politics, diplomacy, public relations, and management, this competitive fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to work in offices domestically and throughout the world, from New York City to Melbourne, Australia. AJC Goldman Fellows receive $3,000 for the nine-week program plus major travel expenses.

American Hebrew Academy: This Jewish pluralistic college prep boarding school located in Greensboro, NC, is looking for post-college graduates for its Fellowship program. Free housing, kosher meals, generous monthly salary ($1,000/month), health benefits, and access to campus amenities included as part of the residential Fellowship.

American Jewish World Service: Offers service and travel opportunities for college students over the summer and during alternative breaks to places like India, Nicaragua and Peru.

Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps: Avodah engages young people in direct work on the causes and effects of poverty in the United States. Participants in Avodah’s service Corps program deepen their commitments to social change and Jewish life through a year of full-time work at anti-poverty organizations in Chicago, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Birthright Israel: Free first-time educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26.  Interested students should contact Professor Berkove .

Dorot Fellowship in Israel: The Dorot Fellowship is a leadership development program designed to assemble and empower a network of young Jewish lay leaders to enliven the American Jewish landscape. Between 10-15 fellows are chosen each year to live in Israel, where they sharpen the characteristics and skills, acquire the experience, and broaden the networks required for Jewish leadership in the 21st Century.

Eco-Israel: A 5-month MASA program that allows students to explore how Ecology, Judaism and Israel blend together in a working model of self-sustaining ecological community. Eco-Israel offers English-speaking young adults, ages 18-30, the opportunity to embrace permaculture and sustainable living through intensive hands-on experience and coursework on an organic farm in Israel. Upon completion of the program, participants receive an internationally recognized certificate in Permaculture Design.

Engage with Israel: Peace, Democracy, and Social Justice: J Street U’s second annual free trip to Israel will take place in June 2012, during which students will engage with pro-Israel, pro-peace issues.

Golden Slipper Camp. This non-profit camp in the Poconos rich in Jewish traditions is currently hiring young Jewish leaders to work as counselors this summer.

Hillel National Student Opportunities: Includes summer internships at Hillel’s Schusterman International Center and the Collegiate Leadership Internship Program (CLIP).

Hillel-Pardes Summer Fellowship: July 9-30, 2012. Dynamic, interactive study of Jewish sources with students from all around the world. Classes accommodate all levels of Hebrew and text study experience. Participants will gain skills enabling them to achieve a greater comfort level in incorporating Jewish learning into their work. Pardes and Hillel’s Schusterman Int’l Center have joined together to provide FREE tuition, plus a $500 travel/living expenses stipend. For more information, contact Jamie Schiffman at jschiffman@hillel.org after February 6th.

Hillel’s Schusterman International Center Fellowship Program: One-year positions in Washington D.C. awarded annually to several outstanding graduating student leaders.

Israel Pathways organizes 5- and 10-month programs for young adults (ages 21-30) with generous funding from MASA ($3,000-$7,500 grants). Participants can choose from learning digital media skills in Tel Aviv, hiking the entirety of the Israel Trail, or taking part in a community service program to get a close-up experience in Israeli society.

Israel Teaching Fellows: A unique partnership between Israel’s Ministry of Education and Masa Israel Journey, the program will place 100 outstanding North American college graduates in underserved communities in Israel to teach English as part of a 10 month service learning program.

Jewish Organizing Initiative (JOI): JOI recruits Jewish young adults from around the world for a year of leadership training that includes working for social and economic justice, Jewish learning, training in grassroots community organizing skills, and Jewish community building. The fellowship involves works in social justice community or labor organizations, generally in low-income community organizations and bi-weekly learning and reflection about organizing for justice, Judaism, and community building. JOI has been operating in Boston, Mass. since 1998.

New Israel Fund (NIF)/SHATIL Social Justice Fellowships: Are you a senior or recent graduate? Apply now for the New Israel Fund’s paid year-long social justice fellowship in Israel, the Shatil Fellowship.

Ma’ase Olam: A 10-month service learning program for North American and Israeli young adults. Participants will create and carry out projects for the benefit of Israel’s disadvantaged communities.

Machon Kaplan Social Action Summer Internship Program: Free six-week (June 10 – July 22, 2012) work/study internship program for college students based out of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. You will be part of a meaningful community, experience real-world public policy work, and learn about Judaism and social justice. The program provides housing and college academic credits. Application deadline is February 3, 2012.

NISPED-AJEEC Service-Learning Program in the Bedouin Community: Five-month fellowship through the Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development (NISPED). NISPED is a close J Street partner in Israel and their new service-learning project brings together Arab-Bedouins and Jewish volunteers from around the world to live together and volunteer in the Bedouin city of Rahat.

Tevel B’Tzedek: Sends groups of 20 Jewish participants, both Israeli and American, to Nepal or to Haiti, where they volunteer and study subjects including local language, globalization, culture and development, and a Jewish perspective on social justice. The program is non-denominational but shomer Shabbat and shomer Kashrut in public areas.

Tikkun Olam in Tel Aviv-Jaffa: Live and volunteer in Israel’s city that doesn’t sleep: Tel Aviv-Jaffa! Two tracks available: The Social Action Track (live and volunteer with new Israeli immigrants, refugees from Darfur and Eritrea, and migrant workers) or the Coexistence Track (volunteer in organizations that work towards Arab-Jewish coexistence). For young adults ages 21-29. Scholarships available.

Volunteers for Israel: One-, two-, and three-week volunteer programs on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base performing non-combat civilian support duties.

Yahel Social Change Program: A 5-month service learning experience in Gedera, Israel, for young adults between the ages of 21 and 27. Yahel participants explore Israel by living, learning and volunteering alongside their peers from the local Ethiopian Israeli community and working in collaboration with Friends by Nature, an Israeli grassroots organization working in the Ethiopian community in the fields of community empowerment and education.