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Youth Commission
Congregation Ohev Shalom firmly
believes in supporting the youth
of our synagogue. Towards this
end we offer three groups that
serve our youth from fourth to
twelfth grade. These groups offer
the opportunity for preteens and
teens to strengthen their identification
with Judaism and with the synagogue,
as well as to socialize and interact
with their Jewish peers and friends.
USY
is the group that serves our
high
school kids, from ninth to
twelfth grades. This
group is involved in social action
and tikun olam,
which literally means “repairing
the world.” Our USY group
manages to combine these goals
with a strong synagogue connection
as well as just plain having fun.
Their involvement is at the local
chapter level, the sub-region level
(central Florida or the Mercaz
region), the regional level (the
southeast or Hanegev region) and
the national/international level.
USY has monthly programs, inter-chapter
activities, seasonal regional and
sub-regional conventions and one
international convention, this
last year held here in Orlando.
Our USY advisors are Barbra Resnick and Stacee Fisher
and our USY president is Jeremy Attermann.
Our Kadima
group serves sixth through eighth
graders. They are
known as the middle school affiliate
of USY. Kadima also has monthly
programming, which meets social
needs as well as offering cultural
and religious connections to the
synagogue and community. Kadimaniks
participate in inter-chapter events
and sub-regional events, including
one over-night weekend convention.
Our Kadima advisors are Liz Kiefer and Marc Hoffenberg and our Kadima
president is Samantha Kaplan.
Olim includes
fourth and fifth graders. It
is a group that the synagogue
offers to fill the social needs
of our Sunday/Hebrew school kids.
Olim has one program per month,
in and out of the synagogue.
As with the older groups, Olim
includes some focus on tikun olam,
and doing mitzvot for others. Our
Olim advisor is Ellen Zollman.
Our youth groups
are supervised and overseen by
Amy Geboff Director
of Youth and Family Education for
COS. The Youth commission is the
synagogue committee that works
with the above named professionals
in setting policy and allowing
for the smooth functioning of our
youth groups within the synagogue
setting. We are strongly committed
to keeping our youth involved in
the synagogue and in Jewish life,
and to offer them support towards
becoming our future Jewish leaders.
Vicki
Freed and Janise Klaiman, Youth
Committee Co-Chairs
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