NFTY and the URJ Kutz Camp are hitting the road this Fall, visiting all 19 NFTY regions within 18 weeks, to bring the best of NFTY Convention 2011, Kutz: NFTY's Campus for Reform Jewish Teens, URJ Camps and NFTY in Israel Programs, the NFTY Strategic Plan, and the best of Reform Jewish Teen Programs to NFTY Regional events.

Follow Kutz Camp Director and NFTY Associate Director Melissa Frey on her travels, where she will be joined by members of the NFTY North American Board, NFTY and Kutz staff, and other special guests along the way.

Check out regular here on NFTY.org, Twitter and Facebook (NFTY | North American Federation of Temple Youth and Kutz: NFTY's Campus for Reform Jewish Teens). We’ll be posting regular blog entries, photos, and updates from the sky and on the ground as we work our way throughout all of NFTY. Photos from the 19in18 Tour are on Melissa's Facebook page, and are public to all viewers.

 

Blogging 19 in 18: Diary from the Road
December 25, 2010
NFTY-CANOe Winter Kallah!
A wonderful winter weekend with NFTY-CAR and NFTY-NO at OSRUI!
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December 15, 2010
NFTY-CWR FallInter Event
Part two of the West Coast Alliance weekend in California!
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December 15, 2010
NFTY-OV North SubRegionals
My journey home to West Lafayette, Indiana.
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December 15, 2010
NFTY-SO Fall Kallah
Chai Shul Jewsical presented by BaRFTY!
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December 15, 2010
NFTY-SoCAL Fall Kallah
Part one of the West Coast Alliance weekend in California!
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November 9, 2010
Don't Forget About the "O"!
My visit to Oklahoma City for NFTY-TOR's Fall Kallah weekend.
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November 9, 2010
NFTY-NAR SUPERKallah!
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's NFTY-NAR Fall SUPERKallah at URJ Eisner Camp!
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November 4, 2010
Going home to NFTY-NEL
Reflections on my visit to the region I called home for five wonderful years!
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November 4, 2010
NFTY-PAR at URJ Camp Harlam
Holy Shuk! I've never seen anything quite like NFTY-PAR, what a great 15 hours!
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October 27, 2010
My Afternoon in NFTY-Michigan
A wonderful day in West Bloomfield (in the midst of college football mania)...
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October 15, 2010
NFTY-Southwest is HOT!
One hundred and six degrees of non-stop fun in Phoenix, AZ!
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October 3, 2010
I Heart NFTY-Northwesty
NFTY-NW Leadership Training Institute at URJ Camp Kalsman in Alrington, WA.
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September 29, 2010
19in18 Channel Surfing with NFTY-Missouri Valley
Channeling my inner leader over Labor Day weekend at the Missouri Valley Leadership Training Institute in Kansas City.
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September 29, 2010
Home Again: NFTY-NAR & NFTY-GER
The 19in18 Tour comes home to Kutz for the NFTY-NAR and NFTY-GER executive board weekend.
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September 3, 2010
Have you met Harry Potterstein? I have. A trip to NFTY-SAR.
I have to admit, in my eleven years of working for NFTY, I had never been to NFTY-SAR. I’d heard lots of great things about it from notable NFTY-SAR alumni, former NFTY President Andy Shoenig (05-06), Kutz Assistant Director Kelly Biedinger, Steven and Melissa Moss, Jonathan Edelman, Jamie and Emily Gottlieb, Ethan Guthman, Sam Todd – the list just goes on and on. For years I have heard amazing stories about Camp Jenny, and perhaps the SAR regional boards are the most memorable at Mechina and Veida, in their fabulous red capes.
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August 26, 2010
A Day In NFTY Northeast
Following several days of much-needed rain in this part of the country, the clouds parted this morning, and sunshine was streaming down on the beautiful grounds of URJ Camp Eisner in Great Barrington, MA, when I arrived to spend the day at NFTY-Northeast’s Summer Institute.
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August 26, 2010
Here We Go!
The parking lot at Kutz Camp was illuminated at 5 am this morning by a full moon. With keys, phone, bags of swag, camera, and the GPS in hand, I am so excited to get on the road and start this amazing journey.
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Tour Dates

NFTY-NE Summer Institute - Aug 26 - URJ Eisner Camp
NFTY-SAR Leadership Training Institute - Aug 27 – Roswell, GA
NFTY-GER/NFTY-NAR Executive Board Weekend - Aug 28-29 – URJ Kutz Camp
NFTY-MV Leadership Training Institute - Sept 3-5 - Kansas City, MO
NFTY-NW Leadership Training Institute - Sept 24-26 - URJ Camp Kalsman
NFTY-SW Fall Kallah - Sept 30-Oct 2 – Phoenix, AZ
NFTY-GER New Member Kallah - October 2 - Skype from Phoenix to Kutz Camp
NFTY-NW Welcome to Jewish Teen Life - October 3 - Seattle, WA
NFTY-NEL Derech Atid - Leadership Kallah - Oct 15-17 – Cleveland, OH
NFTY-MI Leadership Training Institute (LTI) - Oct 16 – W. Bloomfield, MI
NFTY-PAR Fall Kallah - Oct 29-30 – URJ Camp Harlam
NFTY-NAR Fall Kallah - Oct 30-31 - URJ Eisner Camp
NFTY-TOR Fall Conclave - Nov 5-7 - Oklahoma City, OK
NFTY-CWR Congregational Visits - Nov 10-12 - Livermore, CA
NFTY-SO Fall Conclave - Nov 12-14 - Baton Rouge, LA
NFTY-OV North Sub Regionals - Nov 19-21 - West Lafayette, IN
NFTY-CWR Fallinter - Dec 10-11 - URJ Camp Newman, CA
NFTY-SOCAL Fall Kallah - Dec 11-12 - Camp Hess Kramer, CA
NFTY-CAR/NO Winter Kallah - Dec 17-19 – OSRUI, WI
NFTY-MAR Winter Kallah - Dec 26-27 - Capital Camps, PA
NFTY-STR Winter Regional - Dec 27-28 – Orlando, FL
Netzer Veidah Olamit – January 13-19, 2011 - Jerusalem, Israel
NATE Conference, Jan 31-Feb 2 - Seattle, WA
World Union for Progressive Judaism Conference - Feb. 7-10 - San Francisco, CA
NFTY Convention & Youth Workers Conference - February 18-22 - Dallas, TX
NAC Retreat, March 23-27, Camp Newman, Santa Rosa, CA

 

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