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Kelly Gould: From professional acting to social action
Leslee Komaiko
June 9, 2016
If Kelly Gould looks familiar, there’s a reason. The 17-year-old Santa Clarita resident has already had a successful acting career that would be the envy of many older actors, appearing on sitcoms such as “Rita Rocks” and “Jessie.”
Sam Weiss: No more pain: A senior’s struggle for normalcy
Eitan Arom
June 9, 2016
Sam Weiss, 17, was a medical mystery for most of his life.
Don’t blame the USY’ers – blame the adults
Jewish Journal
December 24, 2014
On Monday, the international board of United Synagogue Youth (USY) voted to junk the Conservative teen group’s requirement that its top leaders date only Jews.
Outstanding Graduate: Michael Sacks — Leading the way
Jewish Journal
June 5, 2013
As a key leader in a number of organizations at Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, it’s hard to imagine that Michael Sacks ever felt left out.
USY rally against guns
Jonah Lowenfeld
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.
Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Nov. 1 – 7: Dry Bones, Striped Pajamas, Homeless Art
Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin
October 31, 2008
I found unity, friendship and tzedakah in Anaheim
Matt Sackman
February 1, 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.
War enhances intensity of Israel trip
Daniela Bernstein
October 5, 2006
The Eastern Europe-Israel Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Conservative movement\’s United Synagogue Youth.
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