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Throwback Thursday: Best Moments in NFTY
As the 2013-2014 school year comes to an end, NFTY hosted a Throwback Thursday (#TBT) event, asking participants to share their favorite moments from the year that was. Here are just a few of the photos submitted:.
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Appointing a NFTY Leader to the URJ Board
As Shabbat services ended at the URJ Board Meeting the URJ Board had a new nominee, a 19-year old determined, committed Jewish leader - Evan Traylor. At the public announcement of his nomination, the URJ Board burst into applause.
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My meeting with Rabbi Rick Jacobs
As part of my incredible experience at the URJ Kutz Camp this summer, I got the amazing opportunity to meet with Rabbi Rick Jacobs, Union for Reform Judaism President.
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My Journey Through NFTY
Looking back on my amazing journey through NFTY, there have definitely been some incredible and life-changing moments that have come to define not only my NFTY career, but also some of my favorite memories. These moments define my life in NFTY.
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How Will the Campaign for Youth Engagement Affect Me?
Eighty percent of post-b'nai mitzvah teens are not engaged whatsoever in Jewish life – and this is why the Campaign for Youth Engagement was launched, to reverse this trend.
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Women of Reform Judaism: Shaping the Culture of Kutz and NFTY
It was just a year ago when I had the opportunity to be part of the listening campaign of the Campaign for Youth Engagement with the WRJ District Presidents during their annual retreat to Kutz Camp. Last year these women shared their unique and powerful stories about a time when an interaction with a young person influenced their lives.
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Rabbi Jonah Pesner: We’re Taking Youth Engagement Seriously
In this week’s Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh, Rabbi Jonah Pesner, the URJ’s Senior Vice President, lays out the ideas behind the Reform Movement’s new Campaign for Youth Engagement, a major effort to bring young Jews (back) into the fold.
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A NFTY Experience Thanks to WRJ
In 3 unbelievably short years I have transformed from an awkward, boring high school sophomore with few goals and not a lot tying me down to a confident, driven, passionate, inspired young man with a much stronger idea of who he is and what he wants to do with his life. And I have NFTY to thank for everything.
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NFTY’s SAVP Visits NFTY-NE’s December Institute
Last week, I traveled to NFTY Northeast’s December Institute at URJ Eisner Camp, where I once again found myself thinking: “This is what it’s all about.”.
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Campaign for Youth Engagement: This is My Campaign
The last Biennial I attended was in 2007 in San Diego. I did not know what to expect of Biennial and could not imagine just what thousands of Reform Jews looked like.
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