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NFTY-CAR: Your NFTY Journey Starts Here

By Claire Dodinval, ESTY When planning started for JYG Kallah, I was pumped to be able to contribute my ideas to THE event that introduces 7th and 8th graders to NFTY, the same event that got me excited to be a NFTYite back when I was in 8th grade.  The theme for this year’s kallah:  “Your [...]

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NFTY-CAR: My NFTY Experience

Since my freshman year, I have been infatuated with NFTY. To outsiders, it comes off very cult-like — we gather in circles with a twisted candle ablaze in the center; we chant prayers in unison; we cry while leaving each other, separated for many weeks at a time.

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Midwest Mash-Up

Melissa’s D’var Torah: Judges and Justice

NFTY leaders from the Chicago Area, Michigan, Missouri Valley, Northeast Lakes, Northern, and Ohio Valley regions collaborated at Goldman Union Camp Institute in Zionsville, IN, for the inaugural Midwest Mash-up Leadership Boot Camp event. Melissa Frey, director of Kutz Camp and associate director of NFTY, delivered the d’var torah based on parasha Shoftim. Just a [...]

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