Bringing Jewish mothers to Israel through leadership and identity-building experiences.
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A Mountain Jew visits Israel during Mizrahi Heritage Month:You probably haven’t heard of my people. We’re the Mizrahis no one talks about
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The Gulf Coast Jewish Federation is proud to bring the internationally renowned Momentum experience back to our community in 2026. After a brief hiatus, we are once again inviting Jewish mothers to embark on a powerful yearlong journey of learning, growth and connection, including an unforgettable trip to Israel.
Some 280 women from 15 countries came to Israel with Momentum to bear witness to the horrors of Oct. 7, 2023, and become “change agents.”
‘If you can transform mothers, you can transform families – and communities’.
Over 300 Jewish women from over 15 countries joined Momentum’s journey to Israel, many for the first time, to reunite, feel at home and stand against antisemitism.
Alongside Israeli mothers, they visited the Nova Festival site, bonded deeply, and proved that when Jewish women unite, they inspire global change.
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It will be in the merit of the righteous Jewish women that we will bring redemption to this world. Here’s to living in reality. It starts with women. >>Continue Reading
I was recently in Israel again, on another Momentum trip, and I couldn’t help but marvel at the resilience of the Israeli people. >>Continue Reading
There is no replacement for being in a place and actually talking to people there’ >>Continue Reading
With the help of the Momentum community, Belinda Schneeweiss and her group, The Mezuza Mamas raised considerable funds to provide mezuzot and build kindergartens for the residents of Kibbutz Be’eri. >>Continue Reading
I credit my desire to do more and be an advocate for Israel to Momentum. >>Continue Reading
Une experience hors norme à laquelle Actualité Juive a assisté. >>Continue Reading
In times of crisis, the Jewish people act – we speak out, we volunteer, we give, we take action >>Continue Reading
She will “leverage her skills in developing long-lasting partnerships to enhance the Momentum network around the world,” said CEO Ben Pery. >>Continue Reading
Ensuring Jews stick together despite politics.>>Continue Reading
Momentum teaches a group of South African women how to advocate for the Jewish state in an increasingly hostile environment back home.>>Continue Reading
October 7 was a watershed moment. Overnight, Jews went from thinking about their Judaism once or twice a year to thinking about it every day and every night.>>Continue Reading
Momentum flew in 130 Jewish mothers from all over the world to volunteer, connect with Israel, and explore their Jewish identities.>>Continue Reading
The event, which took place in Jerusalem, was held 127 years after the original Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. >>Continue Reading
Women approached me and said that they came because they wanted their feet to touch the same ground as Israelis who suffered so much, that they wanted to bear witness and make us feel a little less alone.>>Continue Reading
That is why, following the Hamas massacre, I dropped everything to volunteer at a trauma center near the Israel-Lebanon border. >>Continue Reading
“The idea was, if we can’t bring them to Israel, let’s bring Israel to them,” Debbie Hochberg, Momentum’s Board President, said. >>Continue Reading
The organization is providing resources to local Jewish mothers to enable them to understand the situation on the ground in Israel. >>Continue Reading
Momentum, formerly known as the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project, recently held a solidarity event in Baltimore for Jewish women interested in learning about current affairs in Israel. >>Continue Reading
The movement represents an army of women, men, partner organizations, Jewish leaders, influencers and change-makers. >>Continue Reading
Explaining why he joined the trip, Brian Seigal, a parent of a lone soldier in the IDF, came to support his son and the country >>Continue Reading
The six-day trip, which brought more than 150 parents thus far from the United States, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, United Kingdom and more spanned across the country and focused on the need for unity in this time of crisis. >> Continue Reading
I’ve had the honor of leading many trips to Israel over the years, but my most recent one felt like my first.>>Continue Reading
The 80 mothers were part of Momentum’s Unity Trip to show support for the country. Continue Reading
“Strengthening the connection to Israel is one of Momentum’s main goals,” said Momentum’s board president, Debbie Hochberg. Continue Reading
My Momentum journey taught me that these Jewish women in the Diaspora each feel responsible for us, and we’re profoundly inexorably linked. >>Continue Reading
For Israel’s milestone anniversary, the Jewish women’s movement is launching a social-media campaign that spotlights women who have integrally shaped Israel over the last 75 years. >>Continue Reading
Katie Roth of Los Angeles was selected as one of the dozens of Jewish women from around the world to share their story on Yomm, a website and complimentary app launched by the Momentum organization. >>Continue Reading
Wilmette native Kim Leib was featured on a new app made exclusively for Jewish women. The app, called Yomm and its accompanying website, gives Jewish women around the world a chance to foster a virtual community of like-minded women, connect to Israel and also delve into their own journey of self-discovery and reflection. >>Continue Reading
Robin Reiter of New York City appears on Momentum’s Yomm, a website and app which provides Jewish women from around the world a chance to connect with Israel, each other, and themselves in a journey of self-discovery and reflection. >> Continue Reading
New York City native Robin Reiter was selected as one of the dozens of Jewish women from around the world to share their story on Yomm, a website and complimentary app launched by the Momentum organization. >> Continue Reading
Yomm – which translates to “day” in Hebrew – offers Jewish women worldwide a daily chance to reflect, learn and “check in” individually with other Jewish women around the world. >> Continue Reading
“We all know that if the mom isn’t inspired, it’s unlikely that Judaism will be happening in the home. The question is, ‘Who’s taking care of mom?'”. >> Continue Reading
The 8-day trip will include an emotional meet up between the women, some mothers to lone IDF soldiers, and their children, who will see them for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak. >> Continue Reading
The days of our journey did not seem to have enough hours, as we were getting to know each other and Israel. Since our return to Cleveland, we have gathered for meals, mimosas, learning and latka making, with more gatherings scheduled. >> Continue Reading
“We felt that the MoMENtum trip was an opportunity for someone to take the time away from their families to connect with themselves and their Jewish souls,” Wachsman said. “For us, it wasn’t a trip to Israel [for the men] to connect [with their faith] in a vacuum, but it would be a springboard for sparking the Jewish neshama, the soul, to want to explore Judaism more.” >> Continue Reading
The Deborah & Larry D. Silver Center for Jewish Engagement, a division of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, will present its third Night of Inspiration featuring Adrienne Gold Davis on Jan. 13 at Olympic Heights Performing Arts Center, 20101 Lyons Road in Boca Raton. >> Continue Reading
Celeste Tucker of Perth never expected to be visiting a child in the IDF. In fact, she moved to Australia so her kids would not need to serve. “When we left South Africa it was Australia or Israel, and we chose Australia because we didn’t want our sons going in the army,” she said, “Yet now I have my little five-feet-five daughter in the army.” >> Continue Reading
Stacie Stufflebeam has five sons. Four have made aliyah and joined the IDF. >> Continue Reading
For Dalia Khakshoor, pride in her soldier daughter and the figure she cuts in a crisp, desert sand-colored military uniform, collides uneasily with helplessness, and even fear. During her daughter’s first year of service as a so-called “lone soldier,” one who has no family in Israel, “I barely slept due to worry and being far away and not knowing how she was doing,” she said. Khakshoor, who lives in Great Neck, L.I., finds it “very, very difficult. I can’t be there for her in Israel when she needs me.” >> Continue Reading
Dinie Scheiner, PBS’ rebbetzin and director of its Hebrew school and women’s programming, said, “This is my fourth year of leading women’s groups to Israel as I’ve taken over 40 women already in the last four years, and every year the women come back completely inspired and connected to their Judaism, their spirituality and to Israel.” >> Continue Reading
Celeste Tucker from Australia is in Israel on a birthright tour – but not your typical tour – she is here as part of a delegation of lone soldier mothers on a momentum journey that brings together mothers from the USA, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the UK – to visit and tour around Israel. >> Watch the interview here
A group of mothers from the organization “Momentum” shared a special moment with their sons and daughters who are currently serving voluntarily in the Israeli army. Watch and see not only the emotion but the pride these mothers have in their children and their love for the Jewish state. >> Continue Reading
The trip was facilitated by Momentum, once the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project. >> Continue Reading
Nachum interviewed Lori Palatnik, Founding Director of Momentum, who called in live to this morning’s JM in the AM while leading the current Momentum Mission to Israel with mothers of lone soldiers. >> Listen Here
i24 News: A group of mothers from the organization “Momentum” shared a special moment with their sons and daughters who are currently serving Israel’s Defense Force voluntarily. >> Watch
Lori discusses the Mothers of Lone Soldiers delegation. >> Listen here (34:16)
A Chicago mom reflects on what it’s like to have a son serving in the Israel Defense Forces. >> Continue Reading
President Reuven Rivlin met with a delegation of 30 mothers of IDF lone soldiers from North America on Thursday. The delegation was organized by Momentum, a government-backed Jewish outreach organization that includes trips to Israel for mothers.
“Your children are not really lone soldiers, because they are with us. My home is always open to them and every holiday Nechama and I always hosted lone soldiers at our table,” said Rivlin. “We say, ‘On your walls, Jerusalem, I have stationed guards.’ Your children are the guards, and not just of Jerusalem.” >> Continue Reading
Lori Palatnik, founding director of MOMentum – a global initiative that empowers women, especially mothers, to transform themselves, their families, their communities, and the world – was tremendously excited when speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
Yet another dream of the Orthodox outreach educator, author, blogger and public speaker from Rockville, Maryland, had been realized. >> Continue Reading
A delegation of 29 mothers of active IDF “Lone Soldiers” is visiting Israel as part of a special Momentum Journey (formerly known as the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project – JWRP), in partnership with The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Nefesh B’Nefesh. >> Continue Reading
Most summers, we bond with our families at a cottage or campground or just in the backyard, around a campfire or a wading pool, cooling off and getting away from it all. But this July, three sisters from Toronto, Abby, Hilary and Liz Goldstein, took off on the journey of a lifetime – with Momentum, a program that brings Jewish women from all walks of life to Israel. >> Continue Reading
“Despite being Jewish and having worked for a decade as a travel writer in my 30s, it never had occurred to me to travel to Israel before. It hadn’t seemed personally relevant or essential…” >> Continue Reading
Original videos, podcasts, and columns tap into parenting, mental health, relationships, and more, bringing “Jewish to life” >> Continue reading
“The one thing all these women have in common is that they’re all mothers. They all have children under the age of eighteen at home. And they’re coming from all these countries and cultures and within 24 hours, they become sisters, because we share the same values. We focus on what unites us and not what divides us,” said Momentum Founding Director Lori Palatnik. “Today is the anniversary of the tenth year of the first trip of women who ever came on momentum to Israel.” >> Continue Reading
May 21, 2019 “When we launched the movement 10 years ago, our goal was to inspire greater pride and identity among Jewish mothers based on timeless values,” said Lori Palatnik of Washington, D.C., who founded Momentum. “While the Israel experience will remain central to that concept, with Momentum, we’re thrilled to embrace a far broader vision. We’re bringing ‘Jewish to life’ for women throughout the world, enabling them to tap into Jewish inspiration and wisdom everyday and to apply it to every avenue of their lives.” >> Continue Reading
November 18, 2018 <br>More than 400 Jewish women from around the world visited Israel during the past week as a part of the MOMentum project of the JWRP (Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project) and the Israeli Diaspora Ministry. Included among the women participating in the current campaign are groups from the United States and Canada and, surprisingly, a group of women from Turkey. >> Continue Reading
November 2018 When I visited Israel for the first time two weeks ago, I tried to keep concerns about safety in the back of my mind as I traveled an unfamiliar country on a tour with other Jewish women. I need not have bothered, as I was worried about the wrong place. >> Continue Reading
For Jewish mothers with children age 18 and under
Participants only pay their acceptance fee and airfare
To participate in the Momentum Yearlong Journey, women must live in close proximity to a Partner Organization. See our partners list here. Please notify your Community Leader with any updates to your application
Mainly for the husbands of Momentum sisters
$900 for Momentum husbands
Each man get a scholarship of $2,100-$2,400
Partner Organization contributes $700 per man
The Israeli Government does not contribute to the Men’s Trips
To participate, men must live in close proximity to a Partner Organization. See our partners list here. Please notify your Community Leader with any updates to your application
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