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Tetzaveh: What Priestly Garb Teaches Us About Leadership
Yes, at first glance, one could skim this parashat without missing nearly any major plot points of the Torah narrative. However, upon taking a closer look, this week’s parashat has a huge amount to teach us about leadership.
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What We Stand On, Who We Stand For & What We Bring to the Table
The Jewish people set out from Egypt: a group of refugees, a people of pain. Yet forty years later, a people of life arrive in Israel, a group filled with meaning and purpose.
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Planting Carob Trees: Our Responsibility to the Future
The Torah is this incredible document, this guidebook, this unification of the Jewish people. Comprised of epic tales of stealing birthrights, and stories of the heart-wrenching near-sacrifice of a young child at the peak of a mountain.
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Winners Announced: Wendy Blickstein Memorial D’var Torah Competition, Winter 2017
We are pleased to announce that Joe Lichtenstein, a sophomore from Temple Emanuel in Roanoke, VA (NFTY Mid-Atlantic Region), is this year's winner of the Wendy Blickstein Memorial D'var Torah competition. Joe's D'var Torah, titled, "The Quiet Message" focuses on leadership and authenticity in relationship to Parashat Yitro.
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Israelites and Influence: Creating Change Within NFTY
The Wendy Blickstein D'var Torah Competition recognizes achievements in D'var Torah writing on a particular theme. This year's theme was leadership and authenticity in relationship to Parasha Yitro.
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Influence of Women on Our Congregation: A Personal Perspective
Growing up in the 21st century, it is hard for me to believe that the first woman rabbi was ordained only 40 short years ago. Three out of four rabbis at my temple are women, one of whom was ordained within the first year that women were allowed to do so.
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NFTY Competitions 2011: Congratulations to the winners!
Every two years NFTY challenges its members to explore creative outlets within a Jewish context through the NFTY Competitions.
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Mazel Tov! to Winner of RAC Design Competition
Mazel Tov to Aliza Weintraub of NFTY-MAR who was selected as the winner of the RAC’s 50th Anniversary Design Competition.
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