NFTY

Over the past 6 years Subie Banaszynski has served the Reform movement in a variety of roles with NFTY. In each role, she has brought with her an unparalleled enthusiasm for and commitment to Reform Judaism and our youth

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Eighty percent of post-b’nai mitzvah teens are not engaged whatsoever in Jewish life – and this is why the Campaign for Youth Engagement was launched, to reverse this trend.

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By the time I came home from my first summer in the songleading major at the URJ Kutz Camp in 2007, I knew that I had found my passion in songleading – songleading and Jewish music had become as important to me as the air I breathe.

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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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Amidst fidgeting, the crunch of popcorn and the smell of wet umbrellas, I settled in with over 135 teens, parents and educators from Central Synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York, Temple Shaaray Tefila, and Stephen Wise Free Synagogue last Monday to watch a documentary called “Bully.”

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At the URJ Biennial this past December, NFTYites were asked to identify what their own campaigns were by filling in the blank: “I stand up for ________ This is my campaign.”

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