Religion

Outreach

EDUCATION

At the Forefront of the Baal Teshuvah Movement: The Beginnings of NCSY

Rabbi Pinchas Stopler recounts the beginnings of NCSY in the 1960's, a time when all the "experts" predicted the project…

EDUCATION

The View from Pew, Part II: How Can We Do Better?

Our passion for Yiddishkeit becomes contagious when it is sincere. Our students know when it is not.

EDUCATION

Conversations on Inreach

What should we do to better inculcate a lifelong passion for Yiddishkeit in all of our children?

EDUCATION

Conversations on Outreach

What could we do to substantially move the needle when it comes to combating assimilation?

EDUCATION

A Summer of Change

Why camps play such an important role

OUTREACH

1994—Kiruv: Of Patting (and Breaking) Backs

An anecdote resonates in my mind: Raphael Waldman, who had been a journalist at the Baltimore Sun before accepting Torah…

OUTREACH

2002—NCSY Leaders Then and Now: Marc Belzberg

He definitely gets around a lot. You can find investor/entrepreneur Marc Belzberg, in his large kippah and sandy-colored beard, hosting…

OUTREACH

After Pew: What Will It Take to Save American Jewry

  Taking Our Cue from Pew By Steven Weil Not all of the news coming out of the Pew Research…

OUTREACH

Achdut by Sandy, or Achdut by Love?

Several years ago, while traveling by plane, I found myself seated next to a Reform Jew who seemed interested in…

INSPIRATION

The Shofar Blower

Inspiring stories from a hospital shofar blower. Transcending meaning to the shofar blasts.

OUTREACH

The Best Shabbat Ever

By Mark Levie Hearing my thirteen-year-old daughter Talia say that she had the best Shabbat ever was music to my…

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