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A Jam-Packed Schedule<br />
How one chapter celebrated USY Awareness Week<br />
by Adam Schoenbart, METNY<br />
Hadashot*<br />
During the week<br />
of November 8th, International<br />
USY kicked off<br />
USY Awareness Week,<br />
and the New City Jewish<br />
Center chapter of USY<br />
(in the Koach division of<br />
the METNY region) celebrated<br />
the week as well,<br />
with exciting programs almost<br />
every night. All<br />
week long we had a variety<br />
of programs, each<br />
aimed at attracting new<br />
members and focusing on<br />
different aspects of USY.<br />
Awareness Week<br />
kicked off on Sunday<br />
night, November 9th,<br />
when we interviewed<br />
Clarkstown Supervisor<br />
Charles Holbrook on Radio<br />
USY, where he officially<br />
declared the week<br />
as USY Awareness Week<br />
in the town. A great<br />
show aired that night featuring<br />
USYers from both<br />
NCJC and Montebello<br />
Jewish Center. (Radio<br />
USY is a unique program<br />
started last year by NCJC<br />
USY and continues its sophomore season on a local<br />
radio station - it’s on WRCR 1300 AM on Sunday<br />
nights at 6:00, if you’re in Rockland County, NY.<br />
On it USYers discuss the latest events in Israel and<br />
the world, as well as a different topic relating to Judaism<br />
every week. The show also plays music of Jewish<br />
American and Israeli artists. Recently featured<br />
USY Awareness Week: Radio USY broadcast on Sunday<br />
night with Town of Clarkstown Supervisor Charles<br />
Holbrook (above); Halftime Icebreakers at the Tailgate<br />
Party on Monday night (below).<br />
in the Jewish Week<br />
magazine, Radio USY attracts<br />
more and more listeners<br />
every week.)<br />
The week continued<br />
on Monday with an NFL<br />
Tailgate Party, with over<br />
thirty USYers from three<br />
different chapters attending.<br />
All night long we<br />
watched football on a big<br />
screen projection TV, as<br />
well as movies in our<br />
lounge room. The night<br />
was filled with football,<br />
great kosher wings, TV,<br />
friends, and fun.<br />
Throughout the next<br />
two days we held both a<br />
SA/TO and Israel program.<br />
Tuesday night the<br />
NCJC chapter board sent<br />
out almost 1,000 mailings<br />
to our congregation in<br />
hopes of raising tzedakah.<br />
In our SA/TO mailing we<br />
sent out raffle tickets to<br />
win various sets of CD’s<br />
by Jewish artists such as<br />
Soulfarm, Sam Glaser,<br />
Shlock Rock, and more.<br />
On Wednesday we<br />
followed the SA/TO program by showing the film<br />
“Relentless”, a recent film focusing on the situation<br />
in Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. We also talked<br />
with METNY’s Regional <strong>Youth</strong> Director, Cynthia<br />
Weinger, who spoke about Israel, Wheels, and other<br />
USY summer programs.<br />
Continued on next page<br />
6 • ACHSHAV! WINTER 2003<br />
*Hadashot (zeycg) is Hebrew for “news.”
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