NFTY

By Claire Dodinval, ESTY When planning started for JYG Kallah, I was pumped to be able to contribute my ideas to THE event that introduces 7th and 8th graders to NFTY, the same event that got me excited to be a NFTYite back when I was in 8th grade.  The theme for this year’s kallah:  “Your NFTY Journey Starts Here.”  As a NFTY Leader for the event, I expected to spend a lot of time prior to the event planning and programming with other NFTY Leaders, the co-chairs, Regional board members, and advisors to make the event as exciting as possible.  [...]

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Alongside all of the standard Winter Kallaot, Junior Youth Group retreats, and Social Action weekends, one event particularly piqued my interest. Ohio Valley hosts a Study Kallah every year at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at their campus in Cincinnati. As a Religious and Cultural Vice President, I definitely fit the stereotype: this event sounded like one that I most definitely should attend.

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TYG Tuesday! This week we visit with NFTY-NO’s KRAFTY and check out everything they’re up to and what we can expect in the future.

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If I could summarize NFTY-NW’s Fall Kallah in one word it would be ruach, the Hebrew word for spirit or breath.

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By Amy R., NFTY-SW Member Family, that is what NFTY-SW means to me. Being a freshman I recently went to my first NFTY event. As I headed to the temple I was filled with anxiety: whose house was I going to stay at? Was I going to know anyone?  Would I make any friends? Was my sister right all these years saying that NFTY is life changing? I remembered how I would watch my sister and her friends talk about NFTY and what was being planned for the next event and I would  say how I couldn’t wait until I [...]

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I went to services on Friday evening because it was Shabbat and most Friday evenings I go to services. I knew that our congregation, Temple Beth El in Madison, WI, was hosting the NFTY Northern Regional Kallah this weekend, but I wasn’t really thinking about that as I set out for services.

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