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NFTY-PAR: BOFTY’s Annual Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser
On Friday, November 2, we held our Annual Spaghetti Dinner. It was incredible and we set a new record.
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NFTY-PAR: A Fiesta of a Torah Study
At SLK (Summer Leadership Kallah), PARites rekindled their childhood enthusiasm for piñatas. Piñatas were used as a medium for studying Torah.
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NFTY-PAR: A New Way to Write Programs
For the vast majority of the world the two letters, PI, stand for a Private Investigator. But for the last month, those letters stood for a whole lot more.
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From NFTY Convention to a Political Convention: What NFTY Taught me
In the midst of a thousand teens singing the Sh’ma at NFTY Convention or the high-school leaders at Kutz screaming the NFTY cheer, I learned to stop and take everything in, to fully appreciate the place I was in and the people I was surrounded by.
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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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NFTY-PAR: Reflections from Recent Confirmands
Originally posted on the Reform Judaism Blog By Rosanne Selfon Erev Shabbat Memorial Day weekend found me seated in the 115-year-old sanctuary of my home synagogue Congregation Shaarai Shomayim in Lancaster, PA, for our confirmation service. Unlike other Reform confirmations, ours marks a conclusion of our students’ religious education from pre-school through twelfth grade.
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NFTY-PAR: Elections and a New Beginning
By Hanna Anderson, NFTY-PAR RCVP Some people see Spring Kallah as the end; I’ve come to see it as a beginning. Although it is the last event for our seniors, it marks the beginning of their Jewish adulthood outside of NFTY and it reminds them that NFTY will always have their backs.
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NFTY-PAR: Junior Youth Kallah
Our second annual Junior Youth Kallah, otherwise known as JYK, took place at Camp Harlam this past December. Current 6th-8th graders, who live within our region, were invited to participate in the JYK.
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NFTY-PAR: Make Your Own Program
By Max Miller-Golub, NFTY-PAR Last year, Spring Kallah was my favorite time in NFTY. It was obviously not my preferred event because all the seniors left, and although the Saturday night banquet was great, that’s not what made the weekend special.
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