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| Dear Alumni, |
As the family holidays of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah get closer, we wanted to update you all on the exciting work being done by our Young Judaea Alumni and current Judaeans. We have new staff, new reunions being planned, Alumni making great contributions to the world and many simchas to celebrate as the Young Judaea family. Please let us know what you have going on so we can be involved too. Just like the family we are. Alana Cooper Haidi Appel
CYJ West '86-91, Machon '90 CYJ West '70-'75,
YC '92-92, CJ Staff '94, Hadracha '77, TY '77-78,
ISP Staff '95 YC '79-'80
Manager, Alumni Relations Chair, Alumni Relations
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Returning Home to Young Judaea
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Young Judaea is proud to announce that many of our current staff members are also former Judaeans! What a statement of the power of the Movement, some people just can't leave. Young Judaea Alumni in New York include:
Casey Baker, Senior Manager for Long-Term Israel Programs - CJY West '95-'96, TY '98, Machon in Israel '99, CNH Maz '00-'01, YC '01-'02, Sprout Lake Staff '00-'07
Alana Cooper, Manager of Alumni Relations -
CYJ West '86-91, Machon In Israel '90, YC '92-92, CJ Staff '94, Machon In Israel Staff '95
Andrew Fretwell, Manager of Youth Leadership and Education- TY 2000, Sprout Lake Staff '02, Ganei Yehuda Maz, '01-'02, National Maz '03-'02, YC '02-'03, TY Staff '02-'10
Jamie Maxner, Assistant Director TY - Sprout Lake'92-'94, TY '95-'96 '98, Machon in Israel '97, YC '99-'00, Sprout Lake Staff '00, TY Staff '01-'02, '04-'10
Sharon Schoenfeld, Director of Operations for Young Judaea - TY '82-'85 (staff '93-'95), National Mazkirut '84-'85, Sprout Lake Staff '83 '85-'89, YC '85-'86,
David Weinstein, Director of TY- Sprout Lake '76-'77, TY '78-'79 '81, National Maz '81-'82, Sprout Lake Staff '81, YC '82-'83, TY Staff '82-'87 '89 '08-'10
Noah Wilker, Operations Director of TY - Sprout Lake '91-'93, TY '94-'95, Machon '96, YC '98-'99
In the coming months we will introduce each of these staff members more fully and let you know about more of our camp staff and YJ Israel staff who are also Alumni- so check it out.
I am excited to return to Young Judaea both personally and professionally, as a YJ alumnae it is an honor to have the chance to work with every other YJ alumni out there. After Year Course ('92-'93) and a few years spent at Union College in Schenectady, New York (with summers as staff at CJ and as a Machon in Israel Madricha), I received my law degree at the University of Pittsburgh in 2000.
While in law school while most of my classmates were spending summers clerking at law firms, I lead Israel summer programs, while they clerked for judges during the year, I taught Hebrew School and when they went to work drafting briefs and filing claims - I was recruiting for Birthright Israel and serving as the Hillel director at Goucher College. It's very possible that I should have seen what career path I was heading down...
After stints at the Union for Reform Judaism and the Anti-Defamation League, coming home to Young Judea is wonderful. I am ready willing and able to assist in coordinating alumni events, reunions, reconnecting you with lost friends and so much more!
I look forward to working with you all,
B'shalom
Alana
Alana and the women of YC'92-'93's Kvutza Aleph
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| YJ Alumni Profile | |
 David Ruderman
Profession / Title: Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Herbert Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Young Judaea Program(s) and Year(s): I spent 11 summers at TY beginning in 10th Grade. I was a madrich, then became merkez of the oldest chug, head counselor, head of ulpan, and was even director one year. I was active in leading Young Judaea in Long Island and Poughkeepsie, NY. I was on the year course in 1961-2. As a graduate student at the Hebrew University (where I received my Ph.D.), I taught on the year course in the early 1980s.
Tell us your favorite memories from Young Judaea:
I don't have one in particular. I became a responsible adult through the Movement, developed my skills as a teacher, and developed my Jewish identity.
How has your Young Judaea experience impacted your life today?
I see a direct connection between my role as Jewish educator, rabbi, scholar-professor, and my teaching role in Young Judaea. One surely led to the other.
Please describe your current professional involvement. What do you do?
I have been a professor of Jewish history for 35 years at Maryland, Yale and Penn. I direct the most important think tank in Jewish studies in this country, inviting each year 20 scholars from around the world. See www.cajs.upenn.edu
Are you currently involved with Young Judaea or Hadassah?
No longer but for many years I spoke at Hadassah meetings and conventions.
Please describe how/if your YJ experience encouraged you to visit/have closer ties to Israel.
I visit Israel once a year and have lived in Israel for short and long periods throughout my life.
My sister and brother in law are former Young Judeans. The latter, Ami Rosenberg was a national president. They have lived in Jerusalem for many years.
Where are you living now? In Philadelphia
If you would like to contact David Ruderman you can reach him at: Ruderman@sas.upenn.edu |
| Where Are You? Alumni Updates |
Shira Fisher (YC '96-'97) writes:
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In July, I travelled to Israel with my new husband, Gad Marshall, to celebrate our marriage with our Israeli relatives. While there, we also celebrated with Year Course friends. Shoshana Kogan and Toby Appel both made aliya and are getting married, Shoshana in August to Asaf and Toby in November to Tommy. The three couples (L to R - Tommy, Toby, Gad, Shira, Asaf, Shoshana).
We're all YC 96-97.
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| Alumni Lifecycle Events | |
Engagements
-- Holly Gelfand (CJ '97-'00, TY '94, Machon in Israel '95, YC '97-'98) and Ari Kurtz (CJ Staff '02) are pleased to announce their engagement. The wedding will be held in Atlanta, GA.
Weddings -- Alison Brown (Regional Mazkirut '90-'92, TY '89-'91, Midwest Staff '91-'94, YC '92-93, TY Staff '95) married George Josh Karabin, on September 25, 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Births -- Shira Cooper Teed (CJ '90-'95, TY '97, Machon in Israel
'96 YC '98-'99) and her husband Jon Teed are pleased to welcome daughter, Sadie May to their family, on November 11, 2010. Sadie joins her brother Henry.
-- Lisa Samick (TY and Sprout camper and staffer, regional director, and director of Hamagshimim) announces the birth of her daughter, Jenna Grace Ballone, born on October 8, 2010.
-- Eric Ross (Sprout Lake '86, CJ '89-'93, TY '93-'95, TY Staff '96-'99) and his wife, Jamie are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter Lily Rebecca, born June 16, 2010.
-- Susan Schein Wachman (TY '63-'65, 'YC '65-'66) welcomed a new grandson, Bar. Bar joins his 5 girl cousins.
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Young Judaea Alumni Events and Reunions
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The October 10th Alumni reunion at CYJ Sprout Lake was a great success! Over 100 alumni and their families enjoyed a beautiful, sunny day full of activities including a carnival, omanut, sports, rikkud, a bbq, ropes course and of course a song session with our favorite alumnus son leader, Ben Aviv Tam! A performance by Tizmoret, a Jewish acapella group from Queens College topped off the day.
The 1963-64 Year Course continues to stay in touch
We formed warm friendships on our Year Course that are lasting a lifetime. We renewed those friendships at a reunion in Jerusalem in May 2003. Now, whenever someone visits Israel, we try to get together; and when any of the Israeli contingent comes to the States, we do the same thing.
Barbara (Kleinman) Shivek and her husband Uri, who live on Kibbutz Hatzerim, came to visit and 15 of us got together with them Sunday evening, October 17, 2010 at Mr. Broadway in New York City. A good time was had by all. All of us wished that somehow everyone could have been present. There were 37 people on our 1963-64 Year Course; seven of us live in Israel and five people are no longer with us
Barbara Kleinman Shivek and husband Uri Alan Jacobs and wife Ruth
Janice Greenfarb Levy Joan Krafchek Farber
Joan Krafchek Reichstein Susan Marx
Arthur Freierman Alan Jacobs and wife Ruth
Charlotte Fischer Wolovsky
Stephanie Coleman Crant and husband Phillip
Upcoming Reunions
Camp JudaeaCamp Judaea is holding a reunion in Israel at 7:30PM, December 25, 2010 for our 50th Anniversary. It will be held at the home of Susan Nehab, Moshav Beit Yitzhak, Netanya. For more information, contact Susan Nehab at susan@mnsys.co.il or 052-530-8018 Year Course 1969-1970There will be a Year Course 1969-1970 reunion held in Jerusalem December 31, 2010-Jan 1, 2011. If any members of YC '69-70 will be in Israel (or are now planning to be to attend the reunion). Please contact Peggy (Hesselson) Ginsburg, Marty Chazon or Judy (Hellman) Levy for more details.
If you would like to plan an alumni event in your area, plan a Year Course reunion or have a report/photos of reunions, please contact
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| Hanukkah 2010 | |
Young Judaea illuminates the lives of thousands of young people across the United States.
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From camps in the U.S. or summer programs in Israel, to post high school and college programs in Israel, Jewish continuity happens because of your generous support. Help to ensure the continuation of Young Judaea programs, social action projects, camps, conventions, and scholarships. By lightingcandles on our virtual menorah, your donation will light the way toanother century of success for Young Judaea. Additionally there are many Hanukkah gifts your family can use when you go to light the Young Judaea Virtual Menorah, including a printable coloring book, a virtual dreidle, Latke recipes, craft projects and ideas for 8 ways to be an environmental Maccabi. We hope that your family uses and enjoys these resources, and that you enjoy a wonderful Hannukah!
Use our Virtual Menorah to donate today and send Hanukkah e-cards to your friends and family
Send us photos of your Hanukkah celebration and let us know if you used any of our ideas to alumni@youngjudaea.org
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In Young Judaea News
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How Many Young Judaeans Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?
No, its not the start of a great new joke (although email alumni@youngjudaea.orgwith any great answers, and we will share them in the next months)?
It's Green Light YJ.
What is Green Light YJ?? Good question. Green Light YJ is an initiative that Alternative Winter Break is taking on to work with Green Light NOLA tp replace 2,000 standard light bulbs with CFLs in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, annually reducing the utility costs of low and fixed income residents $92,000, cutting 890,000 lbs.of carbon emission (the equivalent of planting 86 acres of pine trees!) This winter break over 50 current Young Judaeans and a group of alumni madrichim will spend a week in New Orleans and working with Green Light.
The 50 + students will learn about problems faced by members of communities with whom they otherwise may have had little or no direct contact. By integrating an ongoing educational component into the program, AWB participants will build community, explore their Jewish identity and leave with a deeper commitment to service that will springboard into lifelong active citizenship where the tenets of community and tikun olam (repairing the world) will become a part of everyday life.
For more information read the press release or visit the AWB Website and check out our cause on Facebook!
Extra Extra Read All About It....
read the current version of Kol HaTnua right here!
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Young Judaea Camp and Israel Programs
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Dispite already robust numbers in its Young Judaea Year Course program,Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, is renewing its commitment to ensure that the program remains at the forefront of long-term opportunities for students in Israel, making it even more affordable. Students can attend a 2011-12 program for as little as $17,700.
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In an effort to grow program participation by 30 percent, Young Judaea, the Zionist Youth Movement of Hadassah, has lowered tuition from $22,200 in 2010-11, to $20,950 for 2011-12. All attendees are also eligible for a $1,000 scholarship from MASA, the Gateway to Long Term Israel Programs. Thanks to additional discounts available, some students will pay as little as $17,700 - savings of greater than 20 percent from this year's cost.
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Additional discounts include:
- Full payment by March 1 - discount of $1,000;
- Participation during 2010 in Young Judaea Machon or other Young Judaea Summer Program, combined with registration by December 31 - discount of $1,000; and
- Hosting a post-registration information session on Young Judaea Israel programs - discount of $250
For more information about Year Course or to register visit www.yearcourse.org
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Young Judaea Israel Summer Programs Add Exciting New Options
In addition to YJ Machon (Tel Yehudah graduates only), YJ Italy (Italy + Israel), and YJ Discovery: (discover Israel!), YJ Summer Programs is running 2 new exciting programs this year:
YJ Aquatics: Red Sea, Dead Sea, Mediterranean Sea...You'll see it all! - YJ Aquatics is a summer program that offers participants the opportunity to explore the land of Israel and its surrounding bodies of water during a jam-packed, fun-filled 4 weeks. While in Israel, participants will explore the major sites, hike through land, float through seas, and learn about its history while strengthening their Zionist and Jewish identity.
YJ Focus: Hollywood in the Holy Land - YJ Focus is a summer program that offers its participants the opportunity to focus on Israel through a camera lens. While exploring the amazing sites of Israel, the participants will create videos and photographs about their experiences. The participants will be guided by professionals who will enable them to enrich their knowledge within the world of video, film production, and photography.
For more information and applications about these programs and our other YJ Summer Programs, go to www.yjsummer.org
Amirim registration is open!
Independent living in Israel!
Amirim, Young Judaea's in-depth Israel living and community service program for young adults, ages 18-27, is NOW OPEN.
By joining Amirim, you'll experience:
- Your choice of location: Bat Yam (vibrant suburb of Tel Aviv), Jerusalem (the heart of Israel) or Arad (the spiritual desert experience)
- Volunteer/Internship options in your area of interest - making a real difference!
- Unique cultural events, weekly group trips, Hebrew learning, and more
- Networking opportunities and resume building
Registration is on a first come, first serve basis, so don't wait!
Learn more today: www.amirimisrael.com
Alumni and New Camper Incentives at all Young Judaea Camps
All of the Young Judaea camps are currently offering an alumni discount for summer 2011, which is $50 off tuition per camper, or $100 off per camper for both session campers. We are also offering $1000 grants for campers who attend a full session (3.5 weeks) who have never had a Jewish, overnight camping experience longer than 19 days. Check out information about YJ camps at
www.youngjudaea.org/site/c.nuIYKfMWIvF/b.6091639/k.A170/Summer_Camps.htm
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| Employment Opportunities with Young Judaea | |
Young Judaea seeking a Part-time Zionist Activist, responsible for overseeing and implementing Young Judaea activities to college age and young professionals. The position is based out of Young Judaea's offices in New York City.
Looking for a great way to spend your summer? How about working at a Young Judaea Camp?
Camp Sprout Lake is looking for experienced specialists to fill senior positions in Arts and Crafts, Waterfront and Outdoor Education. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Talia Horan-Block at thblock@youngjudaea.org
Camp Young Judaea in Texas is looking to hire the following positions: Nurse, Social Worker/Camp Mom, Art Director, Waterfront Director, Logistics Director, Dining Room Manager, Merakzim (Unit Heads), Ropes Course Director, Judaics Specialist, Office Assistant, Israeli Dance Specialist, Drama Specialist, Video/Photography Specialist, Shira (Music/Singing) Specialist, Ropes Course Specialists, Babysitter. If any of the above positions look interesting to you, contact Yael Twito yael@cyjtexas.org for more information.
Tel Yehudah is currently hiring our tsevet for the summer 2011 season and want YJ alumni to fill as many positions as possible! We are looking for a Logistics Director, Driver, Kitchen Manager, Bookkeeper, Office Manager, Nurse and others. Of course, if you have other experiences and think you would be a great fit for camp, feel free to be in touch!
Contact Jamie Maxner at jmaxner@youngjudaea.org for more information or APPLY ONLINE TODAY! |
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