Dear RCVPs,
 
My name is Elaina Marshalek, and I’d like to welcome you to your new fabulous RC network for the upcoming year! I’m very excited for what we’ll achieve this year!

My job as the CWR-RCVP is not only to write services, but to guide you and your network as YOU write services and lead religious and cultural programming.  And this journey isn’t just a trip down the block or something...the RC position is arguably the most important job in NFTY! Yes we may be fourth in the gavel order, but the bottom line is, Judaism is what makes NFTY, and I believe it’s safe to say that Jewish religion and culture is right down our alleyway.  It’s our job as RCs to bring religion and culture into every NFTY event, and to truly nurture the soul of NFTY: our Judaism. 

I’ve tried in this packet to give you some tools to help you on your journey, but just remember that the best resources you have are the members in our network.  The more minds working together the better, so I only hope that we can all learn together on the journey the path that stretches before us in the upcoming year.

Know that to be an RC you don’t need to be a whiz on Jewish Knowledge or a workaholic.  To be an RCVP, one needs only passion, a love of Judaism and the desire to share it.  With this passion, resources can help with Jewish background and if you enjoy it, the work you do can be fun.  I have learned more while I was writing services then I have been studying in Hebrew school.  It is true that writing a service or program can be hard, but trust me, the destination will be worth the journey.
 
B’Shalom,

Elaina Marshalek
Religious and Cultural Vice President, 5768
NFTY Central West
CWR-RCVP@nfty.org