NFTY’s heart and soul is the local URJ synagogue Temple Youth Group (TYG). While each local TYG differs in organization, focus, size, and character, the Temple Youth Group is the outlet for the highly engaged Reform Jewish teenager in a URJ Synagogue. While some TYG’s only meet 5 times a year for social programs, many TYG’s meet over 20 times each school year and offer a full variety of social, leadership, educational, and social action programs.
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TYG’s are linked together by geographic region into NFTY’s 19 regions. While each NFTY Region is somewhat unique in character, program, and traditions, each NFTY Region runs leadership training for local TYG’s, as well as a series of camp, hotel, or home-hospitality based conclaves or institutes that focus on Jewish themes, building community, worship, and social action for general NFTY Membership. The 19 NFTY Regions are as follows:
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NFTY Northwest (NW)
NFTY Ohio Valley (OV)
NFTY Pennsylvania (PAR)
NFTY Southern (SO)
NFTY Southern Area Region (SAR)
NFTY Southern Tropical Region (STR)
NFTY Southern California (SoCal)
NFTY Southwest (SW)
NFTY Texas-Oklahoma (TOR) |
The 19 Regions are, in turn, joined together on the North American Level. North American NFTY events and programs include the Summer NFTY Leadership Academy at the URJ Kutz Camp, NFTY Mechina - leadership training and board meeting for newly elected regional board members - held every June at the URJ Kutz Camp, a Mid-year February board meeting held at the URJ Kutz Camp, NFTY in Israel Programs, and the Biennial NFTY Convention. |
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