Learn more about the Gap Year on our February 18 info session & Tivnu: All Grown Up, our program for adults, on January 23

Or email Steve to learn more about either

Tivnu in the Press

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"The Jewish Review Podcast: Sukkot Subtleties" interview with Adinah Miller (October 2024)

Lilith Magazine: "Building Justice: Lessons from Sukkot" by Rabbi Miriam Grossman (October 2024)

Forward: “Coronavirus leads to a boom for a domestic gap year” (June 2020)

The New York Times: “Gap Year? Do It Here” (May 2020)

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The Jewish Review: “Tivnu Creates Gap Year Fans” (October 2020)

Jewish Exponent: “Gap Years a Popular Option Now for College Students” (July 2020)

Oregon Jewish Life: “A Gap Year Alternative to Traveling Abroad” (June 2020)

The Jewish News of Northern California: “High school graduation and then… college? Here’s what local Jewish corona-grads are planning.” (June 2020)

The Times of Israel: “Tikkun Olam: US Jewish Nonprofits Construct Coast-to-Coast Partnership” (Dec 2019)

Oregon Jewish Life Magazine spotlights Tivnu’s Community Volunteer days in “Building a Better Portland” (Nov 2019)

Inside Philanthropy: A Unique Prize Taps Jewish Wisdom to Defend Democracy. Who Are the Winners? (March 2019)

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Prize honors projects that apply Jewish wisdom to current problems (March 2019)

Oregon Jewish Life Magazine: Tivnu Gets Funds and Coaching to Expand its Trailblazing Gap Year Program (January 2019)

E-Jewish Philanthropy: Upstart’s Venture Accelerator Announces Cohort 11 (January 2019)

Oregon Jewish Life Magazine: Learning Life Skills While Building Justice (December 2018)

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Tivnu was selected for inclusion in the 2017 edition of the prestigious Slingshot, A Resource Guide to Jewish Innovation, “an annual compilation of the most inspiring and innovative organizations, projects and programs in the North American Jewish community today.” (September 2017)

Oregon Jewish Life Magazine: Coming Together To Help The Homeless (April 2017)

Arizona Jewish Life Magazine: Tivnu: Shaping Young Jewish Adults Through Social Justice Work (December 2016)

Tablet Magazine: Building Social Justice in the Pacific Northwest “In Portland, a gap-year program for high-school graduates connects Jewish learning and community service” (June 2016)

E-Jewish Philanthropy: Building Jewish Adults: Learnings of a Young Gap Year Program (March 2016)

The Jewish Journal article traces the inspiration for Tivnu from the roots of its founder, Steve Eisenbach-Budner, through the results felt by the participants. (September 2015)

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The Institute of Southern Jewish Life features articles by Tivnu board member Bill Deresiewicz and Gap Year participant Nomi Small (March 2015)

Oregon Jewish Life: magazine highlights the 2014-2015 Gap Year participants in Building for the Future (December 2014)

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Tivnu is one of 17 organizations that were awarded grants from the Jewish Social Change Matching Fund, a partnership of seven matching foundations (Jan 2014)

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The national journal The JewishDaily Forward features Jewish Gap-Year Program Opens in Portland: Tivnu Teaches Construction and Talmud (Aug 2013)

E-Jewish Philanthropy – Tivnu founder speaks at BBYO’s Stand UP and Rebuild: A Teen Issue Summit on the Power of Service (Jul 2013)

Oregon Jewish Life Magazine profiles Tivnu Executive Director in “Dueling Innovators” (Nov 2012)