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The Social Action Spring Break

The Social Action Spring Break

Being immersed into a brand new environment with people you don’t really know beyond name and where they’re from. Not being sure of what is going on around you, but going with the flow, along for the ride. This is the situation I have found myself in since coming back from Greensburg, Kansas with a group of ten peers from GW on an alternative spring break.

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NFTY-MV: It Gets Better

NFTY-MV: It Gets Better

Today, we all logged onto Facebook to find that there was a certain video which had been shared numerous times. Looking back a few months, we can remember the idea for this video just being tossed out during a meeting with one of youth group advisors, Jodi Miller. The idea to make a NFTY Missouri Valley It Gets Better video was an instant hit with all of us.

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NFTY-MV: New Year’s Resolutions

The holiday season is a time to reflect on the bad things we have done over the past year in order to make the upcoming year all the more sweet and meaningful. This is the perfect time to reevaluate how we treat each other and ourselves.

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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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