During lunch, ten roundtable discussions took place on various topics relevant to experiential education including Jewish Camp Programming and a Career in Experiential Jewish Education. Participants chose from 24 breakout sessions including one on preventing bullying, given by the founder of JLove and Values Mara Yacobi, MSW, LSW.
Rabbi Steven Burg, NCSY International Director, explained, “YouthCon’s goal above all else, is to help us become collaborators in empowering teenagers to love their Judaism, in the hope that they will use that power to build a better world.”
Matthew Ackerman, The David Project, Rabbi Steven Weil, Orthodox Union, and Eric Gallagher, AIPAC, discuss sensitizing the “me generation” to Israel’s struggles.
THE PRESENTATIONS AT YOUTHCON WERE THOUGHTFUL, INNOVATIVE AND PRACTICAL - AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK WITH OTHER YOUTH PROFESSIONALS LIKE MYSELF WAS INVALUABLE! -Chanie Kirschner, Youth Director
Congregation Ahawas Achim B’nai Jacob and David, WEST ORANGE, NJ
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