And for our final post of 60 Days of NCSY, we'd like to share with you 10 Life Lessons that current and former NCSYers shared with us from their time in NCSY.
We started by asking a former NCSYer who her inspiration was and continued to ask each nominated person until we got "6 degrees of inspiration."
Written by Liran Weizman, Former NCSYer Last summer I went to Hong Kong for three months because for me that’s home. Although I was born in Belgium and lived in Lexington, Massachusetts for high school, Hong Kong is my home base. Now Hong Kong may seem exotic to you, but when it comes to observing
From her father's conversion at age 12 and growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, Alex's childhood path did not seem likely to lead her to becoming a Jewish educator and teacher at a Bais Yaakov. Read about Alex's journey and how NCSY changed her life.
Written by Batya (Beth Spiegelman) Medad, Blogger and NCSY Alumna It’s hard to believe that NCSY National Conference of Synagogue Youth of the OU is celebrating sixty years of activities and bringing Jewish youth closer to Torah, G-d and the Mitzvot. I became religious, shomeret mitzvot, aka Orthodox through what I saw, felt and learned in NCSY in the
Rabbi Moshe Benovitz demonstrates the more things change, the more things stay the same.
From NCSY and reading Chaim Potok's "The Chosen," Yerachmiel Fried, a typical public school teen ended up getting ordained by Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l and founding the Dallas Community Kollel.
From Great Neck, NY to Shiloh in the West Bank of Israel, Batya Medad of "Shiloh Musings" shares her story of NCSY in the 60s.
We asked NCSYers and staff members to tell us what they will remember about NCSY in 60 years. We also asked them what they think NCSY will look like in 2074. This is what they said…