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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 339

BBYO

BBYO teenagers at a Pride Month-themed summer leadership program, June 2022. (Courtesy of BBYO)
June 29, 2023, 4:45 am
BBYO’s Orlando convention plans pose a Florida conundrum for LGBTQ Jews and allies
The organization, which has 21,000 members across North America and more abroad, draws thousands of teens from all over the world to its events
By Andrew Lapin
Louis Shenker protests outside a town hall held by US Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2018. (Michael Swensen/The Boston Globe via Getty Images/JTA)
January 6, 2021, 3:59 pm
NYC bomb hoax suspect is former Jewish youth group leader, now extreme rightist
Louis Shenker, a BBYO regional vice president when in high school, surrendered to police and is accused of committing arson and causing a scare that cleared a mall
By Ben Sales
T-Pain onstage at Forecastle Music Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, July 14, 2018. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
February 23, 2019, 1:56 am
Rapper T-Pain walks off stage due to rowdy Jewish youth
Grammy winner cuts set short at BBYO convention after audience member hits him with a beach ball, calls concert goers ‘disrespectful’
By Gabe Friedman
Harriette and Ted Perlman, with BBG’s International N’siah, Noga Hurwitz. (Courtesy of BBYO/JTA)
February 16, 2019, 10:09 pm
Chicago industrialist donates $25 million to B’nai B’rith youth group
Contribution by Theodore and Harriette Perlman will allow group to launch and expand new programs to empower young Jewish women
By JTA
US gymnast Aly Raisman confronts Larry Nassar in court, Janury 19, 2018 (YouTube screenshot)
February 17, 2018, 1:53 am
Aly Raisman to BBYO: Be kind, speak out, stand up for survivors
Olympic gymnast tells pluralistic youth movement she draws her strength from her Jewish upbringing
By JTA
Students sitting in the College Green outside Sayles Hall on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island. (Wikimedia Commons)
February 25, 2017, 1:05 pm
Looking for a Jewish college roommate? BBYO has an app for that
Joomie asks new students questions about their Jewish identity and habits, and pairs them up with likeminded dorm mates
By Gabe Friedman
Participants in the BBYO International Convention in Baltimore, February 18, 2016. (Jason Dixson Photography)
February 25, 2016, 12:16 am
Youth reign at annual BBYO ‘Woodstock of Jewish identity’
In the past few years, what was once just a youth movement meet-up has evolved into a high-energy event rivaling anything ‘grown-ups’ mark on the Jewish calendar
By Ami Eden
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
February 14, 2016, 2:52 pm
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
I want to tell you about my Israel
Conjuring a society that is rude, compassionate, resilient, flawed and always full of hope
Zoe Butchen with her dad, Jeff, who was recently diagnosed with Parkinson's. (Courtesy of Zoe Butchen/JTA)
March 14, 2015, 7:22 am
Jewish teen uses Taylor Swift song to fight Parkinson’s
After Zoe Butchen’s dad was diagnosed, she danced to ‘Shake It Off’ in YouTube and started a campaign that has raised over $50,000
By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan
Rachel Mitchell
February 24, 2015, 12:44 pm
Rachel Mitchell
A new kind of hope
BBYO’s annual international convention was a snapshot of the Jewish Diaspora’s vitality, from Canada to Macedonia
A Birthright participant encountering Israeli fauna. (photo credit: Melanie Fidler/Flash 90)
July 17, 2014, 4:53 am
Fighting in Israel forces US teen tours to alter itineraries on the fly
Instead of the Western Wall in Jerusalem or the beach in Tel Aviv, trips are heading up north — and calling home
By Ben Sales
Learning about local homelessness inspired Bailey Dinman to volunteer. (Courtesy Bailey Dinman/via JTA)
July 7, 2014, 12:17 am
Teen coordinates community service day for 200 students
Rising senior Bailey Dinman says her breast cancer-survivor mother is her inspiration
By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan
Teens prepare for the evening's unity walk at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. (Maayan Jaffe)
April 18, 2014, 10:27 pm
KC teens to mark Shabbat with walk in honor of victims
Unity event, organized by Jewish youth groups, will take participants to both sites of Sunday’s fatal attack
By Maayan Jaffe
Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook. (CC BY-SA Scanlan, Wikimedia Commons)
February 19, 2014, 2:50 am
Facebook’s Sandberg recalls identity-building BBYO experience
Social media giant’s COO tells youth group’s conference that her involvement in the movement helped her stay close to being a Jewish woman
By JTA
US President Barack Obama with Michael Froman and Penny Pritzker in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)
May 3, 2013, 1:51 am
Obama taps Pritzker, Froman for top US commerce posts
Cabinet level positions are subject to Senate approval; ‘I intend to work them to the bone as soon as they’re official,’ says president
By Nedra Pickler and JTA
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