Though often described as a “Shabbaton on steroids,” NCSY’s annual Yarchei Kallah was much more than lectures from top Jewish educators and performances from Jewish superstars like Shulem Lemmer...

A dozen Jewish teens from across the Midwest spent New Year’s Weekend in what was, for many of them, the most unlikely of places. Rather than hitting the slopes...

Sabrina Danelich has been named Minneapolis NCSY/JSU’s Associate Director. Sabrina, 26, has been sharing the joy and wisdom of Judaism with others since she was a teenager. A native...

Dylan Pines, 18, is a recent graduate of Marquette High School in Chesterfield, MO. Dylan says he doesn’t have any relatives who perished in the Holocaust – but that’s...

Sarah Pernik (center), 18, is a recent graduate of Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, MO. For Sarah, seeing was believing. “I always heard statistics, but really...

Ruby Livon, 17, is an incoming senior at St. Louis Park High School in Minneapolis, MN. Ruby says TJJ Ambassadors Poland – and the wide range of emotions she...

Shai Kazynski (left), 17, is an incoming senior at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, IL. Shai says what surprised him most on TJJ Ambassadors Poland was finding life in...

Eden Iseman (center), 16, is an incoming junior at Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park, KS. She says she didn’t expect the trip to Poland to be...

This summer 50 Jewish public school teens from across the U.S., including several from the Midwest,  came to face-to-face with the harsh realities of their not-too-distant Jewish past. They...