NFTY

Until two weeks ago, I was a Jewish Youth Worker who had never been to Israel. It’s not that I didn’t want to go – between college, jobs over college vacations and working at camp in the summers, finding 10 days to cut myself off from the world and head to Israel just felt impossible.

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This past weekend brought on many gatherings for various traditions. Thousands of Americans huddled in front of their TVs, wings in one hand remote in the other, to watch Superbowl 46. This is an American tradition unmatched by even the hot dog eating contest on the 4th of July. The Reform Jewish teens of NFTY-Southwest gathered in the name of a different tradition this weekend, Social Action Weekend.

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It is difficult to describe a weekend like this past one. When a record-breaking one hundred sixty five teens come together from all around the Pennsylvania Area Region to give back to our community, it leaves everyone with a feeling of extreme satisfaction, happiness, and meaning.

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My bags are (almost) packed: old gym shoes, a NFTY staff baseball cap, a stack of t-shirts from my six summers at Kutz. I’ve got the pink tallis my grandparents gave me when I became a Bat Mitzvah and, perhaps against my better judgment, a fanny pack.

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My name is Miranda, and I believe in friendship. No, not the cliché, over exaggerated movie recreation of what a friendship should be, but rather a pure, honest form of the word.

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A day into the trip and living on very little sleep, I was dozing off by the time we reached Ein Bokek. Best known as a resort district home to the Dead Sea, it was precisely what Austin and I needed to jolt us back into full attentiveness.

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