USY rally against guns

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on January 2, 2013

On Dec. 25, at its international convention in Boston, United Synagogue Youth (USY), the Conservative movement’s 20,000-member youth group, elected Michael Sacks, a senior at Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, as its new international president. The next day, Sacks and 30 other USY members from the Far West region joined a crowd of more than 1,000 — most of them teenage members of the youth group — in Boston’s Copley Square for a rally to end gun violence.

I found unity, friendship and tzedakah in Anaheim

By Matt Sackman
Published on January 31, 2008

Imagine walking into a room full of 1,000 Jewish teenagers from all over North America who are singing in unity and celebration of their Jewish heritage.

This was the sight at the 2007 United Synagogue Youth (USY) International Convention. From Dec. 23-27, the Marriott Hotel in Anaheim became the center for teens from all over North American attending an amazing weeklong convention packed with social action projects, Jewish studies and most importantly, a focus on tzedakah.

Take a Trip to Israel—In the Classroom

By Julie G Fax
Published on May 12, 2005

It used to be that the Conservative movement's United Synagogue Youth (USY) sent around 1,000 kids to Israel each summer.