NCSY Leadership Dan Butler describes himself as a teen who had become lackadaisical about Judaism, though he had been a star student at the fledgling Yeshiva of Scranton in the 1960s. (“I was valedictorian – shows you how low the bar was back then,” he quips.) Fearful that his cynicism might reach toxic levels, his siblings insisted that he needed to recharge his spirituality at a
NCSY Alumna What started out as a passing curiosity in a great social program morphed into a lifelong commitment to an organization that changed Nina Butler’s life. In short, Nina (née Novetsky) joined the Southfield Michigan chapter of NCSY when she was thirteen years old, and never left. Part of the reason she actively fundraises for NCSY and still sometimes attends a Regional Convention is that she later married Dan,
Landmark Initiative Begins With a Video Interview of an NCSY Legend What began as a personal quest will result in a historical record of one of the most successful Jewish outreach efforts in the history of the American Jewish community. It all started at last year’s Ben Zakkai Dinner, the evening celebrating NCSY’s prestigious honor society. Rabbi Yehoshua Marchuck, director of OU Alumni Connections, sought out Rabbi