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UPCOMING EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
BarTY Announces Officers for
2008-09
President: Rachel Chung
Programming VP: Dana Margolis
Membership VP: Josh Bronstein
Social Action VP: Isabella Roman
Religious & Cultural VP: Rob Kagan
Administrative VP: McKenna Parnes
Fundraising VP: Becky Dugal
Junior Youth Group (Gesher)
We are still working out the details for a junior youth group, but the concept is simple: build a bridge through our social programming so the younger members of the congregation (grades 3-8) have an opportunity to see each other outside of religious school. Stay tuned for more details!
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BarTY (Barnert Temple Youth)
Who We Are & What We Do
BarTy, which stands for Barnert Temple Youth, is the high school voice of the Barnert Temple community. BarTy is a part of NFTY (North American Federation of Temple Youth www.nfty.org, the national Jewish Reform teen movement.
The youth group is meant to be a compliment to post Bar Mitzvah classes, but some of the members find a spiritual/emotional connection to Judaism through temple youth group programming and NFTY conferences alone. Our youth group promotes informal education in the form of social action, religious experience, cultural programming and a social environment outside the classroom.
Each year, BarTY runs a variety of programs and events. Examples of these events include:
Social Get-Togethers like group trips to Cirque Du Soliel, Dorney Park, Laser Tag, and New York City. Social service events like the Food for Thought dinner to raise money for a school in Cambodia; March Midnight Run to collect items to help the homeless in New York City; and preparing food for St. Paul's Men's Shelter.
BarTY has also had a larger role and presence in Temple-wide events like Synaplex Shabbat and Barnert's 160th Anniversary Celebration.
BarTY operates a separate website for its members. To access the site, visit www.freewebs.com/bartyy. To obtain a username and password, contact the BarTY advisors, Melissa or Zack Kolstein.
If you would like to become part of Barnert Temple's Youth Group, please contact our advisors.
Plans for 2008-09
We’re developing a year of social, social action and religious programming based on the daily prayer:
Elu Divarim "These are the Things"
To honor your mother and father
To perform acts of loving kindness
To study Judaism
To welcome the stranger
To visit the sick
To rejoice with the bride and groom
To console the bereaved
To pray with sincerity
To make peace when there is strife
…and the study of Torah is equal to them all because it leads to them all.
We will incorporate families and friends and begin to build that bridge between what we learn in Religious School and what those concepts mean in our daily lives. And we promise to make it fun! |
