Netzer get creative in a busy winter
| TWO British youngsters who recently finished high school, have embarked on a round-the-world trip to visit branches of the youth movement Netzer, and aim to join South African Netzer at their December youth camps in Cape Town.
J.J. Silverman and Dan Raanan, youth leaders in Britain’s Reform movement, have embarked on a six-month journey to visit branches of Netzer Olami, the Progressive movement’s international Zionist youth movement, on six continents. Silverman grew up at Maidenhead Synagogue in Berkshire, while Raanan’s family belongs to Sinai Synagogue in Leeds. “Whilst trying to decide what to do with our gap year,” they said in the newsletter of Britain’s Movement for Reform Judaism, “we concluded that a year in Israel wasn’t adventurous enough for us. We wanted to stay in touch with the movement at the same time as traveling the world, and what better way than to meet with all the Netzer branches throughout the world?” As their plans gained momentum, Silverman and Raanan made contact with every branch affiliated with Netzer, and their itinerary grew to include stops in Europe, Israel, South Africa, Australia, South America and the U.S. “We are looking forward to learning all about the different Reform Jewish customs from around the world,” they wrote, “especially from summer camps in both South Africa and Australia. We hope that our trip will strengthen the connections between us and Reform synagogues around the world, and [that] we inspire the world to come a little closer.” (Edited extract from an article on the World Union for Progressive Judaism website). |
Making Judaism fun for tomorrow’s leadersThe Progressive Jewish youth movement, Netzer, provides regular events for young people ranging from Grade 1 to post-matric Netzer’s big 2007 summer campGet a taste of the fun you can have with Netzer, from our report and photographs of the December camp at Glencairn, near Cape Town. Passing the light to the next generationWhat happens when the youth are no longer so young? They join TaMaR, the young adults movement Michael’s the new Gauteng ShaliachMeet Netzer Gauteng’s new shaliach, Michael Szczupak, previously an instructor in an Israeli youth movement. |
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