Valley NCSY introduces CALABASAS NCSY!

Valley NCSY, the 2006-07 chapter of the year, continues to grow and expand! This year West Coast NCSY is happy to announce the new Valley chapter, Calabasas NCSY. Dr. Eliezer Jones, the associate regional director, will be working with the Calabasas chapter to ensure its grows. Dr. Jones will be creating events, learning programs and Shabbat activities for the chapter. The chapter had their first board meeting this past Sunday and planned an amazing chapter kick-off weekend. November 16th, Calabasas NCSY will be hosting West Coast NCSY's popular Friday Night Lights program in Calabasas, followed by a Saturday night activity and a Sunday fishing trip on a privately rented boat. They also planned a weekly Dinner & Learning program and future events. We look forward to seeing amazing growth with Calabasas NCSY and are excited to see the continued growth of Valley NCSY and the West Coast region.

WEST COAST NCSY YEAR IS OFF TO A GREAT START!

West Coast NCSY 2007-08 has begun with a great start! We began with a trifecta weekend of Freshman/LTS Shabbaton and regional kick-off event with our largest attendance ever! The chapters have begun rolling out great events, weekly programs and are planing some great Shabbatons! We have also introduced a new membership card that has had a great response. Our website has new sections. We have a new chapter in Las Vegas, a new City Director and many new Jewish teens joining NCSY. This has started off as a great year and we expect it to only get better!

Valley NCSY is the place to be!

This past weekend was another happening weekend in the Valley! It began with their 4^th Friday Night Lights (FNL) program, an inspirational Shabbat event for Jewish teens, at a local Valley synagogue. With over 70 teens from all over the Valley, the attendees had a meaningful Friday night prayer, enjoyed a delicious meal, heard wonderful words of Torah from Danielle Finder, Valley NCSY board president, and Dr. Eliezer Jones, West Coast NCSY assistant regional director. Then the teens had a fun time at the Oneg with great treats, fun games and good friends.

The next day over 40 teens went to the home of the Valley NCSY director, Devora Lunger, and had a nice Shalosh Seudos with their friends and local advisors. If that was not enough, that night Valley NCSY had a Lag Baomer Celebration with over 80 Jewish teens. There was a fire pit, pizza, band and words of Torah about the great day. The highlight was when a local Jewish teen band, "10 seconds later", played in the open air and NCSYers got to hang out with each other, local advisors, thier chapter director, the assistant regional director and Rabbi FE Goldberg, West Coast NCSY's regional Director.

What a weekend! However, for Valley NCSY this is not an out of the ordinary weekend. Shabbat is always happening for Jewish teens in the Valley as well as the week days and nights that include learning programs, recreational events and social events! Valley NCSY has become the place to be for Jewish teens.

Valley NCSY Update!

Hey everyone, hope you all had an amazing Chag, as we did!

For the second seder we were joined by public school students. Throughout Yom Tov teens from the North Hollywood community found our home to be a comfortable environment to hang out and enjoy their friends, shiurim, games, nosh and awesome deserts. On Shabbos Chol Hamoed we hosted an Oneg Shabbat at our home in honor of Nissana Boxstein's birthday.

Now that Pesach came to an end, we are once again continuing with our programs including the weekly learning program "Dinner-N-Learning" (DNL), which takes place every Monday @ Jerusalem Pizza in Tarzana, between 7-8 PM. For a ride there please call Devorah @ 818-974-3777.

We are also planning several other exciting events like our very popular Shavuos All Night Learning, which will this year be expended into different Valley communities, "Friday Night Lights" (FNL) will be traveling to another Valley Community very soon, our New York Purim Reunion is being arranged, Stay tuned for more info.

Last but not least, "SPRING REGIONAL fever is in the air" applications are available online @ http://www.westcoastncsy.com or by calling Devorah 818-974-3777.

We want to wish good luck to all Valley NCSY alumni who were home for Pesach as they are returning to Israel to complete the year.

West Coast NCSY Super Bowl Parties: Huge Success

West Coast NCSY Super Bowl Parties Were A Huge Success! The City and Valley NCSY had two wonderful Super Bowl parties this past Sunday. City NCSY had over 50 Jewish teens watching the Colts beat the Bears on one big screen and one plasma. They also enjoyed pool, ping pong, friends, and good food, which included a Jeff’s hot wing competition.

The Valley had close to 80 kids with some serious fans of football and basketball. Basketball? While the game was on the big screen there was also a hard core full court basketball game going on in the backyard. Everyone enjoyed junk food and pizza, and all their buddies from around the valley.

It was great to have all these Jewish teens together enjoying being with other Jewish teens, eating kosher food and hanging out with West Coast NCSY advisors. It was a good game and an even better event!

Super Bowl XLI in the Valley and City!

Valley and City NCSY will be having their annual Super Bowl Party Febuary 2nd. Enjoy 100 yards of great excitement on big screen TV's, with awesome food, a wonderful Mincha, and those sweet commercials!

Valley NCSY Super Bowl Party:

Sunday Feb 2nd @ 2:30 pm @ the home of Jason Pietruszka, 5086 Avienda Hacienda, Tarzana. See you all there!

City NCSY Super Bowl Party: 2:30 pm @ the home of David Korda, 2107 Duxbury Circle, Beverlywood. TOUCHDOWN!