Youth groups across North America came together on May 12, 2013 for a day of tikkun olam. Learn more about a handful of the incredible projects that benefited throughout the day.
Posted on 13 May 2013.
Youth groups across North America came together on May 12, 2013 for a day of tikkun olam. Learn more about a handful of the incredible projects that benefited throughout the day.
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Posted on 27 February 2013.
Check out highlights from NFTY’s recent mid-year board meeting (NFTY Veida) at NFTY Convention in Los Angeles, CA. Meet the North American Board-Elect and take a look at other business from Veida.
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Posted on 12 June 2012.
By Michael Sobin, former NFTY-NO RCVP and President One of the greatest lessons I learned as a member of NFTY came from the Aaron Burton Guide to Successful Regional Boards: Song sessions can tell you everything about a person. Songleading has given me confidence, leadership, and a plethora of other skills I could not have gained elsewhere. During a shira, I witnessed one of the purest moments of energy, when all of a person’s personality is released for friends and acquaintances to see. And from absorbing these moments as a songleader, I have gotten some incredible memories, such as standing [...]
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Posted on 11 May 2012.
By Eli Cooper, NFTY-NO member and STIFTY PVP 5771-5772 NFTY-Northern is made up of 11 active, very distinct and different, TYGs. Each and every one has its own quirks and individualities. The TYGs all have their own triumphs and struggles. They all have different events that go on throughout the year, whether it be cooking and distributing Thanksgiving meals for hundreds of less fortunate families in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area or attending a sleep out to promote awareness of teen homelessness. What makes our TYG’s different aren’t the events that we hold or even the people that are in them. [...]
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Posted on 12 April 2012.
By Lillie Benowitz, NFTY-Northern Social Action Vice-President What is genocide? “The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines and of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group. (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. (e) Forcibly transferring [...]
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Posted on 22 March 2012.
While NFTY-Northern prepares for Spring Kallah in April, the Temple Youth Groups (TYG) that make up our region are busy with their own events.
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