High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lori Palatnik (born 1960) is a Jewish outreach educator, public speaker, and author. She is the founding director of the Jewish Women`s Renaissance Project, dubbed "Birthright for Women", which has brought an estimated 3,000 women to Israel since the summer of 2009 on a subsidized, 9-day tour-and-learn program. She also appears on her own weekly video blog, Lori Almost Live, on the website of Aish.com, which is seen by 50,000 viewers each month. In 2010, she was one of 20 semi-finalists for the Jewish Community Heroes award presented by the Jewish Federations of North America.