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How Growing Up Jewish in the Bible Belt Helped Me Find my Faith
I live in a very small town in west Tennessee, right in the middle of the Bible-Belt region of the United States. Growing up as the only Jewish kid for miles around definitely had its fair share of challenges.
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What Will You Do to Make Our Communities a Better Place in This Jewish New Year?
Shabbat Shalom. This week’s Torah portion, Ki Tavo, is all about giving back.
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NFTY-SO: Keep Moving
Look around. For every step forward, a privilege is recognized, and for every step back we acknowledge a challenge that not everyone faces that makes our road to success bumpy.
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NFTY-SO: Bringing the Holy Home – NFTY Southern’s Social Action Day
At NFTY Southern Institute, teens worked together to define what makes NFTY Southern a kehillah kedoshah, a holy community. To wrap up the weekend, we sent them with the charge of “bringing the holy home” – taking the holiness that they create in our NFTY regional community, and sharing it with the communities they are a part of.
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#ThrowbackThursday: NEL, NAR, NE, NW, SO, OV, PAR, SAR Fall!
Eight, count 'em, EIGHT NFTY regions celebrated fall events this weekend, the most so far in one weekend this year. You will not want to miss out on the fun!.
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If You Can Will It, It Is No Dream
NFTY President Andrew Keene delivered a D'var Torah to NFTY Southern in November 2013 about how dreamers and innovators are the ones who will change the world.
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NFTY-SO: My First Biennial (and first flight!)
"I can't wait!" and "I'm so excited!" were all I could think before Biennial. This would be a weekend of firsts - my first Biennial, my first flight, and my first time meeting anyone attending, as I was the only NFTYite from the Southern region attending.
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Making Wishes Come True at Camp Dream Street
Members of NFTY-Southern give their individual accounts of an incredible week spent at Camp Dream Street.
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Making a Difference on Mitzvah Day
Youth groups across North America came together on May 12, 2013 for a day of tikkun olam. Learn more about a handful of the incredible projects that benefited throughout the day.
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NFTY-SO: Reducing Waste in Southern
The hardest part of starting a waste reduction initiative is breaking our own habits that exist in our daily lives. The task may seem simple, but as we saw, putting it in practice in both difficult and rewarding.
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