As momentum builds towards the culmination of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's 45-year quest to translate the Talmud, over 256 Jewish communities around the world are planning study programs on the Global Day of Jewish Learning, Sunday, November 7th, to mark the occasion. Just four weeks away, communities that have signed on for Global Day now include: Mumbai, Havana, Detroit, Miami, Bratislava, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, Moscow, Los Angeles, and all points in between.
Summer of 2010 brought teens to the beach and movies, but for BBYO, the world's leading pluralistic teen movement, it also brought more than 1,000 teens together in leadership and Jewish identity enriching experiences.
On the first day of my freshman year, I was a newbie. I had just moved from upstate New York and didn’t know a soul. I was nervous, insecure and in hope of being accepted as any freshman would want.
Good Morning America selected two Nassau-Suffolk Region BBYO teens to represent the Jewish voice on an inter-faith panel discussing religious tolerance in America. The clip aired on Thursday, September 23, 2010.
