This Shabbat is special for me, because I am spending it with the NFTY President, NFTY Religious and Cultural Vice President, and our NFTY Director of Education and Special Projects in Eilat.
Posted on 13 January 2012.
This Shabbat is special for me, because I am spending it with the NFTY President, NFTY Religious and Cultural Vice President, and our NFTY Director of Education and Special Projects in Eilat.
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Posted on 12 January 2012.
Follow along as NFTY President Forrest Yesnes and NFTY Religious and Cultural Vice President Austin Zoot travel to Israel for the Netzer Veida!
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Posted on 20 December 2011.
Along with 33 other students attending the fall semester of NFTY-EIE High School in Israel, while on our first big trek, Yam L’Yam (Sea to Sea), we witnessed history.
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Posted on 17 November 2011.
The Ticking Bomb The Iranian nuclear program is a contentious and closely monitored issue in international and Israeli politics that has been front page news on and off. The reason for that is simple – the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran, governed by Shi’ite Muslim clerics, has rapidly advanced its nuclear program over the past decade. Though it claims the program is for peaceful civilian purposes, the international community, led by Western nations, believes it’s designed to build a nuclear weapons capability. The buzz around this issue recurred last week, when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the UN [...]
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Posted on 03 November 2011.
Roey Schiff, NFTY Shaliach, discusses the sixteenth anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Posted on 25 October 2011.
One of the main goals of coming to Israel with NFTY-EIE is to learn Jewish history and culture. 34 other students and I are not only learning about history, but experiencing it being made. Sitting on the lookout spot, our breath was taken away by the beautiful view. Coincidentally, this town was Gilad Shalit’s home, and our breath was taken away even more with the news that he was to land in his town, that day at 4:30. We looked down at our watches: 4:25.
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