For many hundreds of alumni from the Atlantic Seaboard NCSY Region, when Mrs. Miriam (Twerski) Lowenbraun passed away in June in Baltimore, we lost our second mother, our confidante, our […]

Yesterday was the happiest and saddest day in my life so far. Marrying my oldest son Levi to my newest daughter Nechama was a feeling beyond elation. I can’t describe […]

Yarchei Kallah is one of those events that always blows me away.  Once a year I get to learn and teach Public School NCSY’ers who have chosen to use their […]

Yesterday, I went to the funeral of one of my Jewish heroes, Zev Wolfson. His accomplishments are immense in all areas of Jewish life especially in reaching out to our unaffiliated brothers and sisters. I’m not exaggerating when I say he is probably the most important supporter of informal Jewish education of the past century. All that being said, the one thing that most impressed me was…

Over Passover I went hiking with my kids.  My oldest daughter Miriam Sara wanted us to do a 7 and a half hour hike at Bear mountain as she had […]

Guess what time of year it is? No it’s not Yeshiva winter break or the end of the round of Birthright or even Tu B’shvat. It’s time for the annual […]

Who will answer the call? What if the most important call of your life came and you did not answer? What if you did not hear the ring? What if you did not even know it came? I’m at my favorite event of the entire year right now, NCSY Yarchei Kallah and…

Without you I’d be crying on Thanksgiving; thank you to OU Campus program, JLIC, from all the NCSY alumni. A few weeks ago, I spent Shabbos with the Shulman family […]

Love of Israel. As an NCSY I was surrounded by an overwhelming love of Israel. This came from my advisors who either moved there or yearned to be able to. […]

As Rosh Hashana is here, I look back at a phenomenal year at NCSY Alumni. I can't describe for you in depth everything we do here at Alumni but here […]