Sunday began an international campaign called 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. NFTY-CAR Alumni Ari Lorge and Sari Lipsett have taken on this issue in an important and active way.
Posted on 29 November 2012.
Sunday began an international campaign called 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. NFTY-CAR Alumni Ari Lorge and Sari Lipsett have taken on this issue in an important and active way.
Posted in NFTY-CAR, NC13, Social Action0 Comments
Posted on 12 October 2012.
This week was Mental Illness Awareness Week, an event that is held annually by NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Since this year our action theme is Refuat Hanefesh: NFTY addresses mental health, it only made sense for us to spread awareness in the spirit of NAMI.
Posted in NFTY North America, Social Action0 Comments
Posted on 09 October 2012.
Whether you live in the city, somewhere rural, go to a public, or private high school, high school is stressful. It is inevitable that we will all reach a time in our lives when we have so many (mostly wonderful) life choices to make that it can become stressful.
Posted in Mental Health Awareness Week, NFTY North America, Social Action0 Comments
Posted on 08 October 2012.
Why do I care so much about the NFTY action theme R’Fuat Hanefesh – Caring for the Soul: NFTY Addresses Mental Health? Sure I’m a social worker and that’s what my training is in, but why do I really care?
Posted in NFTY Board, NFTY-SW, Social Action, NFTY North America1 Comment
Posted on 07 October 2012.
This year’s action theme, “R’Fuat HaNefesh- Caring for the Soul: NFTY Addresses Mental Health” can be a little tricky to navigate. This may be attributed to the fact that we know very little about the topic of mental health, and even less about what it means to take action accordingly.
Posted in NFTY SAVP, NFTY North America, Mental Health Awareness Week, Social Action0 Comments
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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