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The blog will be updated throughout the conference with all handouts, materials, agendas and business meeting items. This year’s business agendas are exceptionally full of motions and resolutions that can serve to further strengthen BBYO’s position as the premier Jewish movement serving teens worldwide.
by Lexi Knopf and Josh Winik
International Exces was the weekend of August 12th to the 15th. 84 top leaders of our international order came together to increase our knowledge on leadership and of course, see friends from summer programs. We started off the weekend by getting to know our international counterparts through fun and exciting ice breakers. Along with participating in the installations of the international board, we listened to Arielle Braude and Jeremy Sherman, our international Godol and N’siah, give an address about pushing us to our boiling point and empowering us for the year ahead.
On Friday we started off the morning learning about the new efforts our organization is working toward to help our order improve. We focused on StandUp and talked about expanding the Jewish teen experience out of our country and into Bulgaria, Turkey, Argentina, Serbia and other places. We then had a joint business meeting were we passed different motions ranging from joining forces with other youth groups, in supporting the release of Gilad Shalit to pledging to raise over $20,000 for Jewish teens outside of North America.
Friday night we all came together to start Kabbalat Shabbat and then separated into AZA’s and BBG’s. We were then able to choose if we wanted to have a song session or story telling for the rest of Friday night.
Saturday we had services and had programs that made us look at our own regions with our counterparts. We analyzed our regions programming and how it affects our membership, and used the data to come up with strategies on how to improve NER. We then had separate business meeting where we talked about logistics for BBG/AZA Shabbat. We finished the night with Havdallah and had separates in the heart of D.C by the monuments.
It was very helpful to be with all the other regional Nisiot and Gidolim because we were able to discuss our regions together and take things from each other to bring back home and improve our own regions. Ending the weekend with separates session and spirit, right in the middle of city, was special because it showed us how great it is that we are able to practice Judaism so freely. BBYO is such an amazing place to do that.
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