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Meet the 2019-20 NFTY North American Board Candidates
We're excited to share the candidates for the NFTY North American board 2019-2020, who will be elected at #NFTYConvention in a couple of weeks. Learn more about each NFTYite.
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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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Now is the time to show up, together.
As members of NFTY, we know so personally what it means to grow up in a synagogue. We’ve sung Oseh Shalom on a Friday night, swaying back and forth with our arms around new friends; we’ve danced at late-night Saturday night socials in temple social halls; we’ve slept curled up in sleeping bags at youth group shul-ins; we’ve read the Torah for the first time with shaky knees and wobbly voices at our home congregations.
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