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Founded in 1909, Young Judaea is the oldest Zionist youth movement in the United States. It seeks to build Jewish identity and Zionist commitment in American Jewish youth and young adults.
...The seeds of Levine’s commitment to Judaism and Israel were planted by his family, who lived in Brooklyn, New York. “As a youngster, I joined a youth group for young Zionists in Brooklyn, which eventually became one of the first chapters of Hadassah’s Young Judea movement,” he says. “This was my first encounter not just with Jewish history, but also with Hebrew songs and folkdances, all under the leadership of Norman Sheynin, an inspiring educator who made a great impression on me. He also recruited me as a madrich (instructor) for the Tel-Yehuda summer camp in 1949 and 1950..."
BARRYVILLE, N.Y. (JTA) -- When David Weinstein went to summer camp many years ago, the Jewish world was animated by the campaign to free Soviet Jewry.
In his younger days, Weinstein even visited the Soviet Union once to meet members of the Jewish community there. When he left them, he recalls, he thought he’d never see any of them again.
Today, Weinstein is the director of Camp Tel Yehudah, the national teen leadership camp of Young Judaea, in Barryville, N.Y., and his camp dining room is packed with the American children of some of those Russian Jews he met decades earlier.
But the Russian-speaking children, ages 14 to 18, aren’t regular campers at Tel Yehudah. They’re enrolled in Camp Havurah, a camp-within-a-camp at Tel Yehudah that caters to Jews from families from the former Soviet Union.
NEW YORK – Steven J. Goldberg, a longtime supporter of Young Judaea during his tenure as one of the top professionals at Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, will become the Interim Executive Director of the youth movement as it shifts toward independence from Hadassah, both organizations announced today.
June 24, 2011 - New Jersey Jewish Standard
Betsy Gold, a member of Young Judaea's Founding Board, speaks to a reporter from the New Jersey Jewish Standard about Young Judaea's future. . . Click here to read the entire article.
Charlotte R. Bloomberg, mother of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg – and a strong advocate of Israel – died at the age of 102 on Sunday at her home in Massachusetts.
A staunch Zionist, her son and her daughter, Marjorie Tiven, have previously honored her and their father, William, with two major health-related projects in Jerusalem.
Charlotte was the oldest living Young Judaea alumna, having been active in Young Judaea beginning in 1912.
Youth movement FZY has offered reassurance that the decision by its US partner to split from its longtime parent organisation will not impact programmes for British teenagers.
Young Judea announced last week that it would become independent from Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, after more than 70 years of collaboration.
June 10, 2011 - Haaretz
...The solar panel field has been built on land owned by Kibbutz Ketura, about 50 kilometers from Eilat. Ketura, founded by American alumni of Hadassah's Young Judaea youth group in the 1970s, is today home to a large number of native English speakers...
NEW YORK-TORONTO – Thornhill teen Jacob Groysman, a Grade 11 student at Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, was elected by Young Judaea – the youth movement of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America – as chair of pirsum (Hebrew for communications).
“To express my level of excitement in words is near impossible,” said Groysman, a Young Judaea participant since the summer of 2009...
Ravean Kretowicz is a student at San Diego State University currently studying in Israel on Young Judea’s Year Course. His grandmother, Regina Birenbaum Kretowicz, was imprisoned by the Nazis in Radom, Poland, and taken to the Warsaw ghetto, where her parents were killed and her brother and two sisters were shipped off to Treblinka, never to be seen again. She survived Auschwitz, though her husband and daughter were killed, a winter death march to Germany and Bergen-Belsen. When the camp was liberated, she was the only surviving member of her family, had no possessions, and had no home to return to. And thus she embarked on her future. Her grandson wrote this commentary about the past as part of Holocaust Memorial Day, Yom Hashoah...
April 28, 2011 - Washington Jewish Week
Rocking 'n' Raising Funds and Awareness for Sderot.
They came to Fort Reno Park in Northwest Washington on a clear Sunday evening last week to rock out to the sounds of such local bands as 3AM Groove, BranceFace, and T.O.D. (Tools of Demonstration).
It was rockin' for a cause at the Rock4Sderot concert, organized by Maryland Young Judaea, as part of a national Young Judaea project that organized converts around the country to raise funds to benefit the citizens of Sderot, Israel, who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder due to the rain of Hamas-fired Ketusha rockets on their community of the past several years.
The Sderot Media Center, whos mission is to raise awareness for Sderot in the international community, partnered with Young Judaea, the Zionist young movemement of Hadassah, to help sponsor the concerts, which, locally, raised more than $300.
Captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is the focus of two Jewish youth events with New Jersey connections in a single week.
On April 7, some 250 students on the Young Judaea Year Course in Israel were to stage a “Freeze-Out” in Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall to publicize Shalit’s plight and advocate for the International Red Cross to visit the young man, who was seized by Hamas in Gaza in June 2006, two months before his 20th birthday...
March 31, 2011 - New Jersey Jewish News
Celebrating the election of Young Judaea's incoming National Mazkirut members Yael David (Mazkira) and Sivan Yair (Administrative Vice President).
Harold Grinspoon hopes to preserve the overnight summer camp experience for children.
Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake in Verbank, N.Y., is again this year a recipient of a Grinspoon Institute grant. Over the years, the matching gifts have enabled the camp to create a culinary studio, a fine arts studio, health center and to renovate four cabins...
The Young Judaea Youth Group organizes a gap year program in Israel for Jewish American youth. During the year approximately 350 students learn about Zionism and Judaism in Israel, all done whilst volunteering and studying in the country.
As an extension of the tour a group called Olami, consisting of 23 students travel to different various locations around the world to meet their Jewish peers. On this trip they visited South Africa, they learnt about the Jewish community here and how we are all connected to our Jewish history...
Ahead of Good Deeds Day, young American Jew shares his experience volunteering with visually impaired children in Jerusalem.
I arrived in Israel about six months ago along with 320 young adults from all over the world for about a year, as part of the annual course of Young Judea Israel – the Zionist youth movement of Hadassah...
Whenever Ilan Simanin walks out his front door and realizes he has forgotten something, he always looks in the mirror before retrieving whatever it may be.
It’s not that he is obsessive, it’s just that both his parents were born in the Soviet Union, and there are certain superstitions they have instilled in him. Also, no one in his family would ever clean the house if someone were away...
Citing their Jewish commitment to social action, a group of teens from central and north Jersey spent their winter break helping to repair parts of New Orleans devastated by Hurricane Katrina five years ago.
The students were among a group of about 60 teens from across the country who went to the Louisiana city...
Hadassah youth movement members deliver appliances, clothes, financial aid to village damaged in deadly wildfire. Atlanta resident: It was sad to see all the destruction...
BAT YAM, Israel – Houstonians like Adina Goldfin-Wald symbolically may have transitioned from childhood to Jewish adulthood after becoming a Bat Mitzvah, but it wasn’t until her experience in Israel this year, that at age 19, she feels prepared and empowered to embrace the challenges of her adult life as she looks toward college and her future...
Five years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed vast areas in and around New Orleans, much of the city remains in ruins. Many observers say it will take many more years to clean up and revitalize the city, even though lots of progress has been made.
Dani Greenberg, a junior at Brevard High School...
“At camp, it’s so much fun and it is like a family. You can be totally real around everybody in camp,” says Meitav Aaron, after spending his first summer with his brother Nitzan at Camp Young Judaea Midwest...
We want to thank the Young Judaeans for all of their hard work this week! What an incredible group of young people! This youth group not only gave up part of their Winter Break to come all the way to New Orleans to volunteer, but they raised the money to fund the light bulbs they installed...
Despite already robust numbers in its Young Judaea Year Course Program, Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, is renewing its commitment to ensure that the program remains at the forefront of long-term opportunities for students in Israel...
When Frank Silberlicht became the executive director of Camp Young Judaea in Wimberley, Texas, in 1998, he had no idea that his job eventually would change from getting a camp up and running to being the CEO of a midsized nonprofit.
But over the past decade or so, as private camps have ramped up their programming and facilities, nonprofit camps like the Young Judaea in Wimberley have realized...
Hadassah Provides Young Judaea with "Strong Leader" for Transition
Betsy Gold, a member of Young Judaea's Founding Board, speaks to a reporter from the New Jersey Jewish Standard about Young Judaea's future. . . Click 
...The solar panel field has been built on land owned by Kibbutz Ketura, about 50 kilometers from Eilat. Ketura, founded by American alumni of Hadassah's Young Judaea youth group in the 1970s, is today home to a large number of native English speakers...
Rocking 'n' Raising Funds and Awareness for Sderot.
cause at the Rock4Sderot concert, organized by Maryland Young Judaea, as part of a national Young Judaea project that organized converts around the country to raise funds to benefit the citizens of Sderot, Israel, who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder due to the rain of Hamas-fired Ketusha rockets on their community of the past several years.
- The Post & Courier
