Donate to Betar     Betar Youth Programs The two main cities for Betar in the US are New York, New York and Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland: Cleveland has a full-time Shaliach who coordinates activities, including weekly meetings regular events. New York City: New York Betar has a full-time Shaliach who coordinates activities, including special events. Fall Camp: Fall Camp 2005 was held near Cleveland, Ohio and was a major success. The 3 day event was coordinated by Zeev Schneider, the Shaliach for Cleveland. Winter Tour to Israel: In December, 1997, Dennis Seaman of Cleveland Betar embarked on a journey that forever changed Betar. After a year of encourangement by Mayor Daniella Weiss and Development Director Raphaella Segal of Kedumim, Israel, Dennis brought a delegation of 25 people to the town of Kedumin in Israel's Shomron region to help build the city of 500 families which has since been expanded to about 1000 families. Since that first trip, Betar and other groups around the world have joined Cleveland Betar in Kedumim and in other Israeli cities. Rather than spending their vacations seeing Israel through a bus window, tour participants spend their time building Israel rather than just watching it. As a result, other organizations have created sister-city programs to build Israeli communities in the Yehuda, Shomron and Gaza regions to help build a stronger Israel. Spring Camp: Spring Camp is traditionally held near New York City so Betar can participate in the annual Israel Day Parade in New York City. The history of the Parade is traced to Betar which created the first Parade. The parades are now being coordinated by the NY Jewish Community Federation. Each year for the past 15 or so years, Cleveland Betar has led Betar in the parade both in numbers and spirit, as Cleveland has the largest Betar group in the US. Kol Hakavod to Cleveland! Summer Tour to Israel: Betar's summer tour to Israel also goes to Kedumim. Now that Betar has a new Shaliach in New York City, we are looking forward to the leadership of Shmulik Moyal as he coordinated this year's summer tour - Kol Hakavod Shmulik! For more information about this trip, please contact Shmulik at 646-742-9364.     Click Here to contact Betar © 2005, Betar Educational Youth Organization, Inc.