How Madoff Effed Me.

So I really have no idea who funds the Birthright Israel trips, or how many donors give money in order to sponsor these totally free (yes, completely gratis) trips for young Jews (under the age of 26 - and who have never been there before-) but since the collapse of the Madoff ponzi scheme, lotsa Jews are hurting. And many of those people were former donors and sponsors of the Birthright Trips, so now even I have Madoff to thank for the collapse of my summer vacation. I might still get on a trip, but they're scaling back quite a bit because of the financial hit so many have taken. My cousin and I still might get to go, but it will likely be one of the late-August-it's-so-hot-nobody-wanted-to-go-anyways trips... boo hiss!