Posted on 09 January 2012. Tags: judaism, Biennial, Reform, Future, leadership, URJ
Boarding the plane from Chicago to Washington D.C., I knew that I wasn’t going to any ordinary NFTY event. Sure, I had been to Mechinah and Convention earlier this year with hundreds of fellow board members and NFTYites from across the country, but this seemed different.
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Posted in NFTY-NO, NFTY Leaders Assembly at Biennial
Posted on 29 November 2011. Tags: leadership, Newman, Central West Region, Training, CWR, LTI
On October 28-30, over one hundred Jewish teenagers gathered together at URJ Camp Newman to participate in NFTY CWR’s Leadership Training Institute: Finding Your Roots. Read about the all the weekend’s awesome events!
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Posted in NFTY-CWR, Regions
Posted on 31 October 2011. Tags: north american board, leadership, NFTY Board, liza moskowitz, Kutz, pvp, nfty-nar, nfty
NFTY Programming Vice President, Liza Moskowitz, recounts her visit to NFTY-NAR Fall Kallah, October 14-16, at the URJ Kutz Camp in Warwick, NY.
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Posted in URJ Kutz Camp, NFTY-NAR, NFTY Board, NFTY PVP
Posted on 27 October 2011. Tags: socal, taylor lyles, URJ, nfty, leadership, north american board, mcvp, NFTY Board
This being my first event away from my home region, I wasn’t sure what to expect. From the first moments of the event, however, my anxieties were calmed as I was greeted by friendly faces, familiar and new, letting me know that though the place might not be familiar, I had arrived back in my home, in NFTY.
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Posted in NFTY Board, NFTY MCVP, NFTY North America, NFTY-SoCal
Posted on 25 October 2011. Tags: forrest yesnes, leadership, north american board, Kutz, camps, URJ, Board Camping Series, camping, nfty
Concluding our series on the formative impact that URJ camping had in shaping the leadership of the North American Board, Forrest Yesnes, NFTY President, talks about learning to love Kutz Camp while embracing becoming a Jewish leader.
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Posted in NFTY Board, NFTY North America, NFTY President, URJ Kutz Camp
Posted on 17 October 2011. Tags: Board Camping Series, savp, camps, Avra Bossov, leadership, camp coleman, north american board, URJ, nfty, camping
In honor of this month’s URJ communication theme, “Focus on Youth,” each of our NFTY North American Board members will be examining how their URJ camping experience shaped their Jewish lives and leadership styles. This Week we hear from Avra Bossov, NFTY SAVP, who grew up at URJ Camp Coleman.
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Posted in Youth Highlights, NFTY Board, Social Action, NFTY North America, NFTY SAVP