News from Kol Ami

on Tuesday, 03 March 2015.

Its 7:00am on a freezing cold February morning at Toronto Pearson Airport. However, excitement and warmth are in the air as teens say goodbye to their parents and anxiously wait to board their flight to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend the NFTY Convention. Our Kol Ami kids were joined by many of their NFTY friends from the region and were part of a one thousand strong delegation that attended the convention. Kol Ami has not sent any youth to the NFTY convention in many years but this year were fortunate to have Jessica Franzini, Adam Schierau, Sydney Kowal, Amy Wolpert, Raffi Caruso and Hilarie Stein attend.
The kids participated in worship and song, attended a service at the home church of Martin Luther King, made friends and learned about youth empowerment, leadership, and Torah. We are all proud of the commitment and dedication our Temple youth have to Jewish Youth programming.

If you are reading this and would like to enjoy a Convention for yourself, please consider the URJ Biennial that will be held in Orlando this November. The URJ is planning to offer discounts to Temple delegations that attend and it will be beneficial to have has many people from Kol Ami attend as possible. As was stated in a recent URJ Webinar, "when an individual attends Biennial, it benefits the individual, when a delegation attends, it benefits the entire congregation".

L'Shalom,

Mark Wolpert