Meet this month’s NCSY alumni spotlight, Ilan Swartz-Brownstein. If the name sounds familiar it’s because his name has been buzzing around Jewish communities in the U.S. for the past month. This recent America’s Got Talent star walked on-stage as a proud Jew with a kipa and tzitzis along with his co beat-boxer, Josh Leviton. Ilan,
After meeting on Yarchei Kallah 2013, they were both assigned to staff TJJ the following Summer. They knew it was a shidduch after the Staff Shabbaton in May, and the rest is NCSY history.
In 1999, while the rest of the world was stressing about the Y2K bug, Sarah Blitzstein found herself forever changed by NCSY’s Israel Summer Experience. It was her first visit to Israel, as well as the first NCSY program she had been on. That trip was the beginning of a lifestyle of continuous giving of
Rabbi Elliot and Leora (Samuels) Hecht LI and West Coast Regions June 30, 1997
Michael Sass & Symone Hinsvark, West Coast Region, June 12th, 1988
Tzvi Hametz & Malkie Krieger, West Coast & NJ Regions, August 18th, 2013
Ted Zablotsky & Vivian Weisel, New England & West Coast Regions, August 23rd, 1981
Ephraim Goldberg & Betty Weingarten, Atlantic Seaboard & West Coast Regions, December 26th, 1983
Howard Lichtenstein & Linda Wolf, West Coast & Midwest Regions, August 20th, 1978