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NFTY March Madness
While we are all struggling in these hard times, our NFTY community will always be there for us. Beginning Monday, March 16, NFTY will be competing in our 10th annual NFTY March Madness.
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5 Reasons I’m Proud to Work with NFTY Teens
By Jenny Travis, URJ Youth Communications Associate When I was in second grade, my friend and I both won goldfish at our synagogue’s Purim carnival. I made what I thought was the perfect home for my new pet: a fishbowl with colorful rocks and a plant.
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NFTY-PAR – Ongoing Professional Development: Wait, How Do You Do That?
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” This wise and intuitive statement was spoken by none other than one of the fathers of education, John Dewey. We are all educators.
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NFTY-MAR: Spring Kallah 2015 D’Var Torah – Tazria Metzora
This week’s parsha, Tazria and Metzora, continues the discussion of the laws of tumah v’taharah, ritual purity and impurity. First, outlined is childbirth.
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NFTY-NAR: Humans of NFTY
Throughout the course of the weekend at NFTY-NAR’s Spring Kallah, we asked our high school seniors to share some of their thoughts around what it means to be a “Human of NFTY.” Below are three responses from Barak Stockler, Jen Gordon and Jared Fischer, who are members at Congregation Kol Ami in White Plains, NY.
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Consultation on Conscience: Making the Ask
Hello my name is Sam Dorow and I’m the Social Action Vice President, serving and elect, from NFTY GER. Going on a train down to DC to the Consultation on Conscience directly after NFTY-GER’s Spring Kallah all I could think of was the fact that I was going to be exhausted.
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NFTY-SAR: Never Forget These Years
How can you sum up all the feelings that you have about NFTY. I find that to be an impossible task.
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NFTY-GER: Strength Found in Will
This portion has weighed heavily on me. At first glance, we are faced with themes of ostracizing and isolation, embarrassment and shame.
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NFTY Alumni: Past President Zach Newburgh on ARZA Slate
Israel is, for Zach, as it is for many Jews, a place that evokes a wide range of emotions. “I’m deeply cozach-newburgh=2ncerned and troubled ,” he says.
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