In Their Own Words – Sohaila
For Sohaila Rafael (r.), a freshman at Crossroads College Preparatory School in St. Louis, MO, the highlight of the mission was reconnecting to Judaism in a real – and...
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A Transformative Experience in New Orleans
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend, nearly two dozen Jewish public schools teens from St. Louis, Memphis and Kansas were on the ground in New Orleans, getting their hands...
Our Teens Speak…
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 New Year’s ‘Party’ Like No Other
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...
Meet Sabrina Danelich
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...
A Witness Becomes A Witness
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...
‘We Didn’t Just Give Up’
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...
Proud to Be a Jew
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...
Life in a Cemetery
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...