• Helping Teens Find Their Voice

    on March 15, 2019
    As many people in NFTY know, if I hadn’t become a NFTY regional director, I would have become a music teacher. I have been incredibly lucky to have had opportunities to build meaningful relationships with students through teaching music in various capacities over the past decade.

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  • Throwback Thursday: NW, MI, SAR

    on September 11, 2014
    Leadership was everywhere this weekend. NFTY-Northwest, Southern Area, and Michigan all hosted Leadership-events.

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  • NFTY at Biennial: I’m Ready!

    on December 8, 2011
    My journey through NFTY has been an experience in discovery. When I began NFTY as a freshman, I didn't even know what NFTY was.

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  • Melissa’s D’var Torah: Judges and Justice

    on September 13, 2011
    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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