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How the URJ Camps Prepared Me To Be A NFTY Leader, part 4
In honor of this month's URJ communication theme, "Focus on Youth," NFTY Programming Vice President Liza Moskowitz shares her experiences at Greene Family Camp.
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Your Time to Lead: The Campaign for Youth Engagement
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of Presidential Transition at the URJ, discusses his time in NFTY and how we can work together to engage the Jewish community.
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Sukkot from Coast to Coast
Kutz Camp Director and NFTY Associate Director Melissa Frey shares thoughts on Sukkot with NFTY-NAR and NFTY-SoCAL at their events this past weekend. .
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How the URJ Camps Prepared Me To Be A NFTY Leader, part 2
In honor of this month's URJ communication theme, "Focus on Youth," each of our NFTY North American Board members will be examining how their URJ camping experience shaped their Jewish lives and leadership styles. Today, Austin Zoot, NFTY RCVP, shares his expereinces from URJ OSRUI Camp.
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How can we possibly count five years of captivity?
Gilad Shalit is a trending topic on a social media outlet he has never even heard of. With the breaking news today that a deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas to release Gilad from five years of captivity in Gaza, we wanted to take some time to reflect on this significant event.
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This Sukkot, Support Environmental Protections from Border to Border
On Sukkot, we remember our ancestors’ struggles to balance their lives with the surrounding environment in order to produce a bountiful harvest each year. But most of us no longer grow our own food or live at the mercy of natural phenomena in the same ways.
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How the URJ Camps Prepared Me To Be A NFTY Leader, part 1
In honor of this month's URJ communication theme, "Focus on Youth," each of our NFTY North American Board members will be examining how their URJ camping experience shaped their Jewish lives and leadership styles. First up, NFTY MCVP Taylor Lyles chronicles her journey from URJ Jacobs Camp to Kutz.
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Wherever You Go…
Austin Zoot, NFTY North American RCVP, discovers that the comfort of community that Judaism provides extends beyond the limits of High School.
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Checking In with the NFTY SAVP
NFTY's North American SAVP, Avra Bossov, shares an update on her involvement in the Campaign for Youth Engagement and Food Day, a joint project of the RAC and URJ.
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Melissa’s D’var Torah: Judges and Justice
NFTY leaders from the Chicago Area, Michigan, Missouri Valley, Northeast Lakes, Northern, and Ohio Valley regions collaborated at Goldman Union Camp Institute in Zionsville, IN, for the inaugural Midwest Mash-up Leadership Boot Camp event. Melissa Frey, director of Kutz Camp and associate director of NFTY, delivered the d’var torah based on parasha Shoftim.
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