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NCSY

Predecessor	Torah Leadership Seminar
Formation	1954
Founder	Harold and Enid Boxer
Type	Jewish youth organization
Legal status	Subsidiary of a 501(c)(3) non-profit religious organization
Headquarters	40 Rector, New York City, New York, United States
Location	United States, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Israel, Mexico
Coordinates	40°42′19″N 74°00′50″W / 40.705279812590774°N 74.01396840186057°W / 40.705279812590774; -74.01396840186057
Owner	Natan Cohen
International Director	Rabbi Micah Greenland
Parent organization	Orthodox Union
Website	www.ncsy.org
Formerly called	National Conference of Synagogue Youth

NCSY (formerly known as the National Conference of Synagogue Youth) is a Jewish youth group under the auspices of the Orthodox Union. Its operations include Jewish-inspired after-school programs; summer programs in Israel, Europe, and the United States; weekend programming, shabbatons, retreats, and regionals; Israel advocacy training; and disaster relief missions known as chesed (kindness) trips. NCSY also has an alumni organization on campuses across North America.

History

In 1959, NCSY hired Rabbi Pinchas Stolper as the first National Director in the United States.

During the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, the Orthodox youth of NCSY opposed social change, choosing instead to emphasize religious tradition. In this period, at least one NCSY chapter took public action on this point, passing a resolution rejecting marijuana and other drugs as a violation of Jewish law. At the 1971 NCSY international convention, delegates passed resolutions in this vein, calling for members to "forge a social revolution with Torah principles."

According to the Orthodox sociologist Chaim Waxman, there has been an increase in Haredi influence on NCSY since 2012. Waxman based this on NCSY's own sociological self-study.

See also

• Orthodox Union, the sponsoring organization of NCSY
• KEDMA, an Orthodox college outreach group
• United Synagogue Youth, the youth group of Conservative Judaism
• National Federation of Temple Youth, the youth movement of Reform Judaism
• Young Judaea, the pluralist Zionist youth movement of Hadassah
• BBYO, the leading non-denominational Jewish youth movement
• Bnei Akiva
• Pinchas Stolper
• Aryeh Kaplan

References

1. Nathan-Kazis, Josh (October 14, 2009). "Rabbis Still Want Role in Abuse Cases". The Jewish Daily Forward. Archived from the original on April 20, 2013.
2. Yeshiva University (April 2, 2009). "Yeshiva College Honors Student Zev Eleff Publishes Book on History of NCSY". Yeshiva University. Archived from the original on December 11, 2012.
3. "Jewish Teen Summer Trips". Retrieved 2020-02-10.
4. NCSY Background, Orthodox Union, 2000 Archived April 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
5. "Jewish Teen Summer Trips". Retrieved 2020-01-28.
6. "Home". NCSY Relief Missions. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
7. "NCSY ALUMNI -". NCSY ALUMNI. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
8. Bernstein, Saul (1985). Saul Bernstein, The Renaissance of the Torah Jew (KTAV Publishing, 1985), pp. 274, 339. Ktav Publishing House. ISBN 9780881250664. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
9. ^ Diamond, Etan (2000-10-30). Etan Diamond, And I Will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), ISBN 0-8078-4889-1, p. 104. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807848890. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
10. "Winners and Losers in Denominational Memberships in the United States - Chaim I. Waxman". Jcpa.org. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
11. Nathalie Friedman, Faithful Youth: A Study of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (New York: National Conference of Synagogue Youth, 1998).

External links

• National Conference of Synagogue Youth Official website

• Jewish youth organizations based in the United States
• Modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States
• Youth conferences
• Orthodox Jewish outreach