BBYO

The Summer of Belonging

Isaac on the Jordan River.jpg
Isaac Gealer
September 2008

Isaac spent this summer in the Holy Land on a BBYO trip, and he learned just how amazing true belonging really is.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “belonging” as a “close or intimate relationship.” A close relationship to what? A people? Land? Friend?

Jewish Partisan Stories Empower Teenagers Learning about Holocaust

Jewish Partisan Stories Empower Teenagers
Sue Fishkoff

Yom Ha'Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) was last month and at a BBYO convention in New York, teens learned for the first time of the many Jews who did not give in but fought back against the Nazis in WWII.

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 9 (JTA) – Sydney Pickman thought she "knew everything" about the Holocaust.

The 16-year-old from Queens had learned about it in school and at BBYO conventions. But like most of her friends she'd never heard about the Jewish partisans, the young men and women who fought the Nazis.

Her eyes were opened last month, when the San Francisco-based Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation presented a workshop to 200 teenagers at a BBYO convention in the Catskills Mountains in New York.



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