Winner, 2010 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book Award
2011 Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Culture Section's Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book

Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. The most elaborate of the state-supported homeland tours that are cropping up all over the world, this tour seeks to foster in the American Jewish diaspora a lifelong...