North American & Empire Regional Calendar

HAZAK RETREAT 2009
For “Seasoned Youth” … Ages Fifty-Five and Up!
Block and Hexter Camp | June 10-17 2009
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HAZAK RETREAT
2008 on

... The Event Has Passed, but take a look at the video from
the June 2008 retreat, and get ready to attend in 2009! ...
USY’s GREAT ESCAPES 2009
USY Pilgrimage
USY on Wheels
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Watch the promotional videos for
USY's Summer Programs and USY High by right clicking on the links above, and
saving the clips to your hard drive. If you have trouble downloading the videos
from this email, visit our homepage (http://uscj.org/empire)
and download the videos from the website.
Then visit the “Escape
with USY” website to learn more about Wheels
and Pilgrimage – let us help you develop a plan to promote these programs to
your congregation’s teenagers and their parents, and send them off for the
experience of a lifetime next summer! (It’s really not too early to start
planning for the summer of 2008 today!)
For more information on USY Summer Programs, developing your USY and Kadima chapters, and leadership development for USYers and Youth Commission lay leadership – please contact our youth department at fieldworkers@tzafon.org!
IMUN 2009
Camp Ramah in the Berkshires (Wingdale, NY)
July 12-20, 2009

The IMUN PROGRAM is an exciting Study Institute - Retreat
designed to strengthen lay religious leadership in United Synagogue
congregations. For nearly a generation, IMUN has demonstrated great success in
assisting congregations develop lay religious leadership and increased
participation.
Take some time, in a retreat setting, to pursue studying:
• Leading Synagogue Services
• Torah Reading
• Chanting Haftarah
• Conservative Jewish Ideology and Theology
• And more
Cost covers housing, all meals, books, supplies, resource materials, transportation to/from New York LaGuardia Airport) (Partial scholarships available.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact:
Rabbi Paul Drazen
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
155 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 646-519-9310
Email: drazen@uscj.org