When news of the tragedy at the Boston marathon spread, NCSYers and NCSY staff reacted through prayer. New England NCSY Advisor Alex Porcelain of Yeshiva University began a Tehillim...

West Coast NCSY recently completed the second year of its highly successful leadership program, the Teen Philanthropy Movement. The Teen Philanthropy Movement takes teens and teaches them about the...

Jackie Farber – Southern NCSY  The moment I stood in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem in July of 2011 changed my life forever. I could feel the...

Across the world, NCSY remembered the Holocaust. In Baltimore, NCSYers joined a Shabbat afternoon program at the Ner Tamid synagogue with elderly Holocaust survivors. NCSYers sat with the survivors...

Barry Berkowitz’s journey from the halls of East Meadow High School to the headquarters of Google In the eleventh grade, Barry Berkowitz was given his first pair of tzitzit...

by  Avi Colonomos When my group began our Jewish Overseas Leadership Training (JOLT) program, we were divided. We came from all over the United States, from metropolitan cities like...

Etan Vann – Southern NCSY They say that you are religious because that’s how you were raised. My story disproves that. True I was raised religious, but I also started...

Jordyn Kaufman – Upstate NY NCSY I was always a proud Jew, but I didn’t really know what it meant. I knew I didn’t eat on Yom Kippur, at the...

Now that I’m back in St. Louis, I have a chance to reflect on AIPAC. Coming in, I didn’t know what to expect. But between the breakout sessions and...