Israel Travel Grants 

Israel Travel Grants

Thanks so much for your interest in a grant or scholarship from the Jewish Endowment Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts! Funding for this category of grants and scholarships is provided by a group of funds that were created for the purpose of supporting Jewish students or adults in attending travel and academic programs.

Your application will be considered for any of the funds for which you are eligible based on your responses to the following questions. Please note that this application is specifically limited to residents of Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin Counties in Massachusetts, and the nearby towns of Suffield, Somers, and Enfield, CT.

Your application will be reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year.

Questions? Contact Michelle Everett at meverett@jewishwesternmass.org or 413-737-4313, ext. 237.

These Israel Travel Grants are a living tribute to the foresight of our community members. Through their visionary Legacy Funds, they have ensured that the transformative experience of visiting Israel remains a rite of passage for generations to come.  Those funds include

Hebrew Education, Culture & Israel Scholarship Fund
Leslie and Beatrice Kahan Scholarship Fund
Bertha amd Abraham Ritterman Scholarship Fund
Totsy Foundation March of Living Scholarship Fund
Harold Rosen Memorial Fund for Missions to Israel
Goodman Family Fund-Heritage Academy Israel Study Tour Rest Fund
Blance Alport, Mandell Gurfarb & Libby Raffeld Memorial Scholarship Fund for Judaic Studies
Jody Berg Memorial Fund
Lillian and Philip Bessoff Simcha Restricted Fund
Lynn and William Foggle 50th Anniversary Fund for Israel Study
Melvin & Florence Lavin Fund for Israel
Nathan & Joan Libby Jewish Education Fund
Irving & Mollie Merrill Scholarship Fund
Jeffrey A. Parish Fund for study in Israel
Sally Grinspoon Fund for Future Jewish Leaders