NFTY

By Pamela Schuller, NFTY-GER Youth Programs Manager It’s hard to believe the NFTY year has come to an end. While we have lots of great plans in the works for the upcoming year, I’d like to take a moment to remember some of our great events over the past 10 months! We had an amazing group of participants this year in NFTY-GER. As a region, these teens are caring, funny, polite and dedicated to having an amazing Jewish experience together. I truly love having the opportunity to work with them. One of the best ways to see some of the [...]

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By Becca Anolick, NFTY-GER That was the theme of NFTY-GER’s Spring Kallah 2012, which took place this past weekend.  It was a weekend filled with love, laughter, and of course tears. It started Friday afternoon.  4:10pm, I left my house to get to my temple on time.  It was incredibly chilly out but we all huddled together like penguins. We laughed and hugged and tried to avoid talking about how in 48 hours the seniors would have completed their last NFTY event. The bus came surprisingly on time, and soon all 12 people at my bus stop had loaded our [...]

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So imagine waking up the day before a Kallah feeling horribly sick.  Imagine spending 24 hours having your parents tell you that you should start getting accustomed to the idea that you’ll just have to skip Hagigah.  Imagine waking up Friday afternoon three and a half hours before the bus leaves feeling amazing and begging to go to see your friends and imagine your parents giving in and saying that you can drive down to the event first thing Saturday morning. I learned during Hagigah that life hits you hard and the things in life that seem certain (like NFTY) [...]

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I have always been entranced by the flame of a Havdallah candle. Staring into the fire, I find myself filled with feelings of bliss, serenity, and comfort. This past weekend at NFTY-GER’s Turn Up Your Shine Hagigah Kallah, I experienced a Havdallah service, like none I had participated in before.

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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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Welcome to NFTY-GER’s Lit Team corner #2! Here you’ll find great personal stories, poems, pictures, and other things created by NFTY-GER participants. Since we all need a little more NFTY-GER in our lives, this is a great place to come to bring back memories from our events. It’s sure to make you smile every time you stop by! Also, feel free to add your own stories in the comments below! -Pam, NFTY-GER Youth Programs Manager ———- I find it ironic how at a Kallah with the theme “Find Your Voice” I lost my voice… for the first time in my Kallah [...]

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