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 31 January 2013.
The hardest part of starting a waste reduction initiative is breaking our own habits that exist in our daily lives. The task may seem simple, but as we saw, putting it in practice in both difficult and rewarding.
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Posted on 12 September 2012.
Here are a few tips to make the High Holy Days a little less foreign, and maybe even inspirational.
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Posted on 05 June 2012.
By Kovi Katz, NFTY-SO Social Action Vice-President All Saints Episcopal Church recently posted a statement on their sign, “Faith does not condone bullying.” A photo of this sign was posted on Facebook by the producers of the movie Bully, a documentary aired in theaters that depicted the true horrors of bullying that exist today. When I saw this post, I quickly had a rebuttal to the church’s statement; one can have faith that a race will bully another and therefore faith can condone bullying. As the debate continued on in the comments, people began to interchange the word faith with [...]
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Posted on 12 April 2012.
Originally posted on the URJ Henry S. Jacobs blog. Camp Dream Street is a week-long residential camp program for children with physical disabilities. The camp is sponsored by the Henry S. Jacobs Camp, and counselors for the camp are drawn from the teen members of NFTY’s Southern Region. Could I Really Make This Work? by Barrie Bauman Barrie grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is an alumnus of URJ Henry S. Jacobs Camp and NFTY Southern. Barrie received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Washington University in St. Louis and is a pediatric physical therapist at Saint Louis Children’s [...]
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Posted on 27 December 2011.
The day finally came when 143 NFTY-Southerners would be driving arriving at Temple Israel in Memphis, TN. I was ready for the weekend to begin but nervous at the same time because being the chairperson of an event like this was something that I had never done before.
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