One Summer…Two Choices! Spend Summer 2009 on PanimWorks: An Activist's Adventure!

 

PanimWorks: DC JAM, on the campus of The George Washington University, is a leadership training program for teens passionate about politics, community service, activism, and Judaism. Become a leader in the political world and the Jewish community today! Learn about key issues impacting the U.S. and the world through interactions with leading U.S. policymakers and experts, while exploring the connection between Judaism and advocacy. Participate in meaningful hands-on service projects, while earning community service-learning hours. Develop the skills to pioneer change and impact the issues you care about. Two 2-week sessions or a four week session (including a bonus opportunity of a placement in DC agency) will be offered for students currently in grades 10-12.  www.dcjam.org

 

Contact: Reisa Shanaman 301-770-5070, x 217 or dcjam@panim.org

 

PanimWorks: Southwest is a cultural exchange and community service program on a Native American Reservation in the American Southwest. Make a difference as you live in rustic accommodations on a Native American reservation, interacting with members of the Zuni and Hopi Nations while working together to promote positive change. This trip in the majestic Southwest includes hands-on service projects as well as outdoor recreational activities. Make lifelong friends and learn about the ethical values that define Jewish life while earning up to 45 community service-learning hours. Three sessions will be offered for students currently in grades 9-12.  www.panimworks.org

 

Contact: Hershel Cohen 301-770-5070, x209 or panimworks@panim.org 

The Berkeley Jewish Community Center is proud to offer an exciting new program for 6th-8th graders. Young Leaders Create Change (YLCC) is a semester-long leadership training adventure! Students participate in interactive workshops twice a week covering topics essential for high school and college success such as team building, communication, conflict resolution, identity exploration, and public speaking. In order to broaden our Young Leaders? understandings of the world and their role within it, we will explore connections between the Ethical Jewish tradition and current social justice issues such as media literacy, arts and social change, food and gender politics. In partnership with BBYO?s Teen Connections, students participate in monthly service celebrations and practice hands-on leadership skills through creative community improvement projects, such as our Trees for the 21st Century initiative. Learning practical skills, discovering their passions, and stepping outside of their comfort zones, participants develop foundations for lifelong civic engagement as community leaders, advocates, and change-makers.
 
When: Wednesdays and Fridays 4-6pm, Kicking off on Martin Luther King Jr.

 Day, January 19, 2009. Cost is $150/month per participant

 Please direct your inquiries to Olga Khaykin at OlgaK@jcceastbay.org

 Shalhevet 2009

Shalhevet ("flame" in Hebrew) is a transformative journey to Poland and Israel for Bay Area High School Juniors and Seniors. Inspired by March of the Living, Shalhevet is a way for local Jewish teens to participate in a program specifically tailored to the educational and cultural environment of the Bay Area. 

Regional seminars run from January to May and the group will travel March 16-March 30, 2009.

· Learn about the thriving Jewish culture in Poland before WWII and today.

· Witness the concentration camps through the eyes of a survivor traveling with the group.

· Meet with Polish and Israeli teens to get a taste of their lives.

· Experience Israel: the people, the culture and the homeland.

· Examine today's political and geopolitical challenges in Israel.

For more information on the program, information sessions near you, and to complete the online application, visit http://www.bjesf.org/teensnav_shalhevet.htm

 

To see photos, look for us on Facebook: 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-CA/Shalhevet/38924025341

 

Financial Aid is available

 

For more information contact:

Yaron Lipschitz at:  ylipschitz@bjesf.org  - 415.751.6983 x106 or Morgan Blum at: mblum@hcnc.org - 415.777.9060 x203

 

Shalhevet is a dynamic collaboration between the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Holocaust Center of Northern California

USY FALL KINNUS

You are invited to Fall Kinnus 2008!!!!

The theme of this convention is "Judaism in the Arts".  We will explore Jews and Judaism through different artistic media, and even create some of our own!

The weekend will feature engaging programming, a 60's themed casino night, SA/TO projects, tye-dye, friends, food and more!  

The fun begins at Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto at 3:30pm on Friday, November 21 and won't stop until Sunday, November 23 at 1:30pm.  We hope to see you there.

Attached you will find an information flyer, a packing list and the application which is due to the regional office no later than November 10!

Come spend the weekend with us for Fall Kinnus 2008! 

Your Fall Kinnus 2008 co-chairs and regional board,

Lizzie, Haley, Daneh, Anna, Jessie, Danny, Michelle, Gabe, & Jonathan

 

For more information please contact : 

Mishkie Barnea-Smith, New Frontier USY Regional Youth Director

Phone: (408) 892-2732

E-mail: newfrontierusy@gmail.com

www.newfrontierusy.org

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High School Teen Dance

Join with your Jewish high school friends for a night of dancing and hanging together!

 

View the Jews Rock photo exhibit! Enjoy snacks & drinks! Dance to great music!

All 9th—12^th Graders

 

Co-sponsored by the Contra Costa JCC, BBYO, CJLL and Contra Costa Midrasha*

 

Saturday, November 15

7:30—10:30 pm

$10 at the door

 

Contra Costa JCC

2071 Tice Valley Blvd., Walnut Creek

 

For More Information or to R.S.V.P. Email judithm@ccjcc.org or call (925) 938-7800, ext. 256

 

* BBYO is a pluralistic Jewish youth group for teens in the 9th-12th grades, currently serving

more than 400 teens in the Bay Area. Find out more at www.bbyo.org.

 

* Contra Costa Midrasha meets on Wednesday nights, a place for Jewish teens to be together

exploring and creating their own Jewish identity. Find out more at www.ccmidrasha.org.

 

* CJLL - Center for Jewish Living and Learning is the central agency for Jewish education in

the Greater East Bay. Find out more at www.jfed.org.