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NFTY-SW: Finding Your Journey
What would you do if someone came up to you one day out of the blue and said, “Go to this place, trust me. Everything will be wonderful.” Many of the NFTYites in this room were put in this situation at the beginning of their journey that brought them to El Paso this weekend.
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NFTY-SW: Mental Health Awareness, Close to Home
The Action theme this year, “R'Fuat Hanefesh - Caring for the Soul: NFTY Addresses Mental Health” is not an easy topic to discuss in general and is not so easy for many of us to relate to, or so I thought. .
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Why Do I Care? -Mental Health Awareness Week
Why do I care so much about the NFTY action theme R'Fuat Hanefesh - Caring for the Soul: NFTY Addresses Mental Health. Sure I’m a social worker and that’s what my training is in, but why do I really care?.
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NFTY-SW: Uniting for the Holidays
The High Holidays are the one time throughout the year when almost every Jew, regardless of how observant they are, comes out of their year-long hibernation and goes to temple. .
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NFTY-SW: D’var Torah for Rosh Hashanah
By Spencer Winson, NFTY-SW President Every morning I wake up at five thirty. Rolling over, I grab my computer and check Twitter, Tumblr, my blog, and make sure I remembered to do all my homework.
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S’lichot: Looking Back While Moving Forward
By Cody Rosen, NFTY-SW Religious and Cultural Vice-President S’lichot is a time for forgiveness. During S’lichot we repent our sins to get ready for the up and coming New Year.
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NFTY-SW: Preparing for the Future
Coming home from an amazing summer at the URJ Kutz Camp, I wasn’t sure how I would fit into NFTY-SW again. I had just experienced NFTY in a whole new way on the North American level, and I didn’t know how I would adjust to being back in my home turf.
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My meeting with Rabbi Rick Jacobs
As part of my incredible experience at the URJ Kutz Camp this summer, I got the amazing opportunity to meet with Rabbi Rick Jacobs, Union for Reform Judaism President.
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NFTY-SW: June “Howl” Newsletter
Welcome to the NFTY-SW Howl. The official newsletter for the Southwest Region of NFTY.
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NFTY-SW: Highlights of Spring Kallah 2012
When most kids think of the end of April, thoughts of prom, AP tests, final exams and graduation fill their minds. For these teens, however, all those thoughts came second to Spring Kallah.
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