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NFTY-PAR: What are your Daily Miracles?
What are you thankful for every day. Are you thankful for the ability to wake up and get out of bed.
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Shabbat in NFTY: The Kutz Experience
Shabbat is not a singular word. Every Jewish individual defines this twenty-four hour period in a different way, in both action and words.
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Young and Involved: My son’s NFTY Journey
"I’d like to go to NFTY convention." So says my sixteen year old son in anticipation of February 2013 in Los Angeles, California. In these few words he reflects the depth of his involvement with all things Jewish –especially Jewish youth.
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Mechina is upon us. Wait, what is Mechina?
Over one hundred regional board members have descended upon the URJ Kutz Camp for Mechina 5772. This event is an important beginning for the teen leaders comprising the regional and North American board.
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NFTY-NAR: “Am Yisrael Chai” The People of Israel Live
"Am Yisrael Chai" - These words rang true down 5th Avenue in NYC last Sunday as thousands of Israel’s supporters marched together to celebrate. Among the thousands of people and more than 200 groups, NFTY-NAR stood in support.
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Bullying Ends With Us
At the URJ Biennial this past December, NFTYites were asked to identify what their own campaigns were by filling in the blank: “I stand up for ________ This is my campaign.”.
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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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Love: Isn’t That What This is All About?
On Tuesday, May 8th, 2012, the state of North Carolina enshrined bigotry, ignorance, and hatred into their constitution. Many adults who hold the power to vote abused this opportunity by deciding to hurt others to protect their own feelings of morality.
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Top 10 Things to Know About the Campaign for Youth Engagement
We’ve been talking about the Campaign for Youth Engagement since the URJ’s 71st Biennial Convention last December. In the four and a half months since, we’re been working on hammering out the details of this exciting and important campaign, and we want to be sure we’re communicating those details effectively along the way.
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The Challenges of Giving and Receiving
I am four-fifths of the way through a 10-month sabbatical in Israel with my family. We have been living in Modi’in, a growing young city half-way between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, for the past eight months.
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