Watch this video of our NCSY Alumni IDF Appreciation Dinner. Including featured speaker, Miriam Peretz, who lost her sons while serving in the IDF and Shlomo Katz provided musical entertainment.
NCSYers who are giving back to the State of Israel, by serving in the IDF and Sherut Leumi. Rabbi Yehoshua Marchuck, Director of NCSY Alumni, was joined at the event by OU Israel Director, Avi Berman, and a number of other NCSY Staff, who eagerly expressed their admiration for these young men and women. Rabbi
Please join us January 16th at 8 PM at Papagaio for a NCSY Alumni IDF Appreciation Dinner! Register by Monday, January 4 to reserve your spot!
Hashem gave you a gift- it’s up to you to use it right! This week, Rachel Shammah, NJ NCSY, teaches us about the power of speech and how it sets us apart.
Where did Korach go wrong? Rivka Lock, West Coast NCSY alum, looks at this week’s parsha and the life of her brother, Moshe Katz, z”l, to teach us an important lesson about finding true happiness.
By Chaya Schwartz, Germany Close Up Summer 2015 Participant Frustrated as we zoomed through different points of interest in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp I began to move my toes as though I was drawing a shape. The tour guide was talking, but all I could hear was silence. All I could feel was emptiness and confusion and frustration
Ari Solomont NCSY Alumnus You have to be quick to catch a word with Ari Solomont or he’s likely to whizz past you on his bicycle. As founder and director of Cycle for Unity, which helps volunteer cyclists raise funds for charitable causes, Ari is usually training for his next ride. It could be anywhere
By Batya Rosner It is the question that’s long been asked by Jewish educators and outreach workers. What happens “after”? When the student leaves the classroom, when the adolescent moves on into young adulthood and starts charting a path through the wider world − what remains of the lessons and activities encouraged by their mentors? Once
Alyssa Wolff IFS Alumnus One thing most baalot teshuvah agree upon is that they never wanted to be Orthodox, and Alyssa (Wolff) Goldwater was no exception. “I know it sounds terrible, but I thought all Orthodox people were kind of strange,” she admits. “The image of Orthodox Jews – especially Orthodox women – is pretty
Imagine, if you will, that shortly after your birth you were chosen to get an extra heart. You are perfectly healthy but technology made it such that certain people could get an extra heart, another source of extra blood flow, energy and emotion. You can get used to this. In times of stress, sorrow, and