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  • #618311
    Sparkly
    Member

    is anyone on here an ncsy advisor? i have a few questions…

    #1177302
    Sparkly
    Member

    i wanted to know that if your only 1 years older than the 12 grader are you still allowed to go until you get accepted as an adviser? This is obviously a question being asked for someone else…

    #1177303
    Sparkly
    Member

    anyone can answer this question as long as they know the answer!!

    #1177304
    lesschumras
    Participant

    Why don’t you contact NCSY directly?

    #1177305
    Sparkly
    Member

    this girl is me BUT im NOT going to say why that i said 1 year older than 12 grade sorry. i DIDNT end up going but i applied and they said they didnt need any more advisers for where i live because they had TOO MANY but now i applied again and hopefully ill get to become an adviser. but i wanted to start volunteering already which is why i asked if i can go before i get in. they offered me jobs in other places that they had openings in but NOT where i live since they said they had NO openings. but now they said they have more openings.

    lilmod ulelamaid – since you a lot of times give good advice. since ive been interested in going to ncsy for a while but didnt go since im a frum girl so i waited until i got older now that im older and still want to go but as an adviser i asked if i can go until i get the adviser job. should i go?

    anyone elses advice? please???

    #1177306
    Sparkly
    Member

    lesschumras – they NEVER emailed me back i did a few months ago….

    #1177307
    mommamia22
    Participant

    Sparkly

    Don’t wait for an email response.

    Call the regional director and ask.

    It’ll be too disorganized if people just drop in to help.

    They need to know who is present and will want to know who you are before they’ll be ok with your attending.

    You can offer to help with your particular chapter (your local community). Let the director know you are really interested in getting involved with kiruv and because of time/travel constraints, can only work with your local region. Be available even to do office work voluntarily to assist. It might help you get your foot in the door.

    #1177308
    Ex-CTLawyer
    Participant

    Sparkly

    Please read my very long post on the other NCSY thread. I have been involved with NCSY for 50 years, as a member, advisor, adult board member, parent, grandparent. As a shul president I have hired many advisors over the years, and as a regional adult board member I have hired and raised the salary for regional directors.

    #1177310
    Sparkly
    Member

    CTlawyer – your probably on the ncsy staff list????

    #1177311
    Ex-CTLawyer
    Participant

    Sparkly…………

    Back in the early 1970s I was on the preferred staff list for New England Region, as well as the approved kitchen staff list maintained at National NCSY HQ which was then at 84 5th Avenue. Having working in summer camp kitchens during high school and college I had both the ability to direct kitchen volunteers while serving hundreds of meals hot and on time, as well as respected kosher knowledge and and trust by the shul rabbis whose kitchens we used. I often was hired by these host rabbis to come back to their communities and cater synagogue events.

    Once Mrs. CTL and I had our second child we dropped out of advising at events unless they were in our home community. It was too hard for locals to arrange housing for ‘married with children staff’ at shul hosted events, and too costly for NCSY to house families at Hotel based events. Once our children became NCSY members we stopped completely (while continuing in adult boards and fundraising) as it is embarrassing for an adolescent to have his/her oarents as staff at an event.

    #1177312
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    Sparkly, I’m not sure what you are asking me. Are you asking if you should go as a kid (meaning not as an advisor- I don’t know the technical term) until they let you be an advisor?

    #1177313
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    Sparkly, even though I’m still not sure what you are asking me, I’ll tell you what I think the answer is to any of the possible questions you have been raising (being an NCSYer or an NCSY advisor or starting your own kiruv organization).

    The question you should be asking yourself before making any of these decisions is: Will it be good for my own Yiddishkeit or not? I remember when I was in Seminary and I was trying to decide whether or not to get involved in a particular kiruv organization. I asked one of my teachers who responded “Everyone is busy trying to be m’karev the world and they forget to be m’karev themselves, and that must come first.”

    It is really special that you want to be m’karev others, but it can’t be at the expense of your own “kiruv”. You will help the world the most through doing your own growth. If NCSY or another kiruv effort will pull you down, you have lost more than you have gained.

    On the other hand, it is possible that being involved in kiruv will be GOOD for your own spiritual growth. It can also work that way. I had a friend when I was young whose parents sent her to NCSY so that she would become Frum (since they were becoming Frum). Once she was Frum, they no longer wanted her to be involved in NCSY since they thought (very correctly) that she was there for the wrong reasons (to hang out with boys).

    She ended up going to a secular College and she was no longer involved with NCSY at that point, and she ended up marrying a goy. Boruch Hashem, they eventually got divorced and she is now married to someone Frum. It is POSSIBLE that this wouldn’t have happened if she had been involved in NCSY and had Frum boys to hang out with instead of goyim. I have no idea, and I have no idea if that would have been a better alternative. I am just saying it is a possibility.

    My point is that it might be good for you or it might be bad for you to be part of NCSY whether as an advisor or as an NCSYer. I have no way of knowing (especially since I don’t know much about NCSY). But that is THE question you should be asking yourself. You must ask yourself this question both before you make the decision, and if you decide yes, you must constantly be reevaluating, since this is something that can change.

    #1177314
    Sparkly
    Member

    lilmod ulelamaid- im NOT a kid im the same age as the advisers so you CANT go to ncsy as a kid which is what i was posting about with ctlawyer who knows a LOT about this. ctlawyer said exactly what i thought was the issue being that they like the ncsy almna which doesnt make sense if you read the other thread to be the advisers if those are either baal teshuvas or went OTD and im specifially talking about the otders.

    #1177315
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    NCSY = Negiah Can Save Yiddishkeit

    #1177316
    Sparkly
    Member

    i REALLY want to get involved with kiruv but there are NO programs since there all accepting their almnas like ncsy which is not okay since if you read the other thread doesnt make sense. is there any way to get involved in kiruv???

    #1177317
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    Sparkly – in any event, my advice still stands.

    #1177318
    Sparkly
    Member

    lilmod ulelamaid – that is true. when did i say it didnt?

    #1177319
    Sparkly
    Member

    DaasYochid – ncsy – nothing can stop you. thats what an ncsyer wrote! so i guess thats what they said there?!?!

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