Welcome to NEXT Shabbat!

Host a meal on a Friday night or Saturday and Birthright Israel NEXT picks up the tab! Giving Taglit-Birthright Israel alumni up to $18 per person for up to 16 people, NEXT Shabbat wants you to celebrate Shabbat your way.

Redefine rest with a traditional family dinner or take a break from the daily grind with fifteen of your friends at a picnic in the park. Whether your dinner has four people or forty, is home-cooked or take-out, involves singing or just schmoozing, get creative and greet Shabbat with your own flair.

Shabbat brings together food, drink, music, and celebration. Traditionally candles are lit, bread is blessed and wine is drunk. Create your own rituals or reconnect to the old. NEXT Shabbat allows you to take charge of your personal involvement in Jewish life and define and create your own community. Click here to find out more!

Hospitality has been a Jewish value since the Biblical era when Sarah and Abraham invited strangers into their tent. Birthright Israel NEXT encourages all past Taglit-Birthright Israel participants to gather their friends and celebrate Shabbat on us, thanks to a generous grant from the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life.

Whether your Shabbat meal is Traditional or inventive, alternative or old-school, host one in your hometown and take part of this global effort. Represent!