Announcing NFTYx: Your Space to Create
The NFTY North American Board 2020-2021 & NFTY Staff For NFTY teen leaders and staff, this summer has been all about brainstorming, strategizing, and planning for the future of NFTY. After countless think tank meetings and hours spent on Zoom, we are thrilled to...
NFTY March Madness
While we are all struggling in these hard times, our NFTY community will always be there for us. Beginning Monday, March 16, NFTY will be competing in our 10th annual NFTY March Madness! NFTY March Madness is a fun, yearly competition where regions duke it out to...
From the President: February Update
By Maya Levy, NFTY President As a NFTYite I always had a lot of questions about Netzer Olami: what it is, where NFTY fits into it, what their programming is like, etc. This month I traveled to Jerusalem with Brandon Morantz (NFTY Religious Cultural Vice President) for...
2020 North American Board Candidates
It is written in the Talmud “It is not the position that honors the person, but the person who honors the position.” Teen leadership is one of the highest priorities within NFTY. It is what makes our movement so strong and unique. As such, there are many...
2020-2021 North American Board Elections Packet
Teen leadership is one of the highest priorities within NFTY. There are many opportunities, on local, regional and North American levels, to be involved in peer-to-peer and adult-teen leadership experiences. NFTY's Asefah business meeting is a time to review...
Applications are now open for NFTY Task Forces!
We are thrilled to announce that NFTY’s Task Force applications are now open! As an official Task Force member, you can help guide NFTY and congregations on topics important to teens and our Movement. Throughout September, we held a series of interest calls for those...
New: 19 Leadership Opportunities for Every Type of Teen!
Find your place as a leader in your synagogue, state, or across North America. Learn professional skills and explore your passions that help you stand out and lead, no matter where life takes you. Work with mentors, take local action, and make friends and memories that will last a lifetime!
Statement from NFTY in Response to the Deadly Shooting at Chabad of Poway
On the last night of Passover and six months after the tragedy of the Tree of Life Synagogue, news of a shooting at a Chabad in San Diego shook our movement. The shooting claimed one life and injured several: one injured was under the age of 18. We mourn with the San Diego Jewish community and wish a speedy recovery for those who are injured.
NFTY Stands with the Women
Yesterday, a New York Times article was released called, “Michael Steinhardt, a Leader in Jewish Philanthropy, Is Accused of a Pattern of Sexual Harassment.” As members of the Reform Jewish community, fiercely committed to the fight against sexual violence, this news...
This is Our Work
My own social justice journey largely began my freshman year of high school, as a member of NFTY’s Southern Tropical Region. The summer of 2015, as a participant at a Union for Reform Judaism summer camp, I sat in the lobby at camp and watched President Obama give the eulogy at Reverend Clementa Pinckney’s funeral. The Charleston shooting had happened nine days earlier, and Reverend Pinckney was one of nine people murdered during a bible study at church. I watched President Obama sing Amazing Grace on the small camp TV, and I thought, “That could have been us.”