YFTI IS NOW A BBYO CHAPTER!
YFTI is our high school youth group, now an official BBYO Chapter! We'll continue all your favorite YFTI events and programs, plus BBYO's regional and international conventions and programming. Our yearly activities include local, national, and international trips, weekend retreats, social action opportunities, social events, and more, all designed by and for teens in grades 9-12. These teen-driven activities are supervised by Rabbi Jen Lader and Youth Director Ross Klar.
President
Quinn Cohen
Programming VP
ben berman
Membership VP
Talia Ossipove
Junior Youth VP
Tilly Stoller
Jewish comm VP
Brandon Levine
social action VPs
Marni Levine & Mitchell Weiss
Communications VP
Lily Liss
Mental health VP
Blake Rubenfaer
Fundraising VP
Dane Zeff
August
8/21: The Spark: YFTI Board Leadership Retreat
September
9/1: Labor Day Picnic
9/8: Roots Kickoff with Ofir Engel
9/15: Roots
9/28: YFTI Kickoff at Cedar Point
9/29: Roots
October
10/2: YFTI Led Family Yom Kippur Service
10/6: Roots
10/12: BBYO Regional Kickoff
10/13: Roots
10/20: Roots
10/24–10/26: YFTI Fall Trip
November
11/3: Roots
11/9: Mitzvah Day
11/10: Roots
11/17: Roots
11/21–11/23: BBYO Regional Convention
December
12/8: Roots: South Oakland Shelter Project
12/15: YFTI + JARC Chanukah Party
January
1/11: BBYO Rush
1/12: Roots
1/26: Roots
1/30–2/1: Ski Trip
February
2/9: Roots
2/12–2/16: BBYO International Convention
2/19–2/23: L’Taken Washington D.C. Trip
2/23: Roots
2/28: BBYO Regional Members Only Event
March
3/1: Purim Carnival
3/9: Roots
3/16: Roots
3/21: Mystery Night
3/23: Roots
April
4/13: Roots – Final
4/17–4/19: BBYO Spring Convention
4/27: Roots – Graduation (12th)
May
5/8–5/10: YFTI City Trip
5/21: Roots – Confirmation (10th)
June
Teen Mission to Israel
Resources
Sponsor a Monday Night Dinner
Dear Temple Israel teens, parents, grandparents, friends, family and alumni!
We are so excited to welcome our teens home after an incredibly challenging year, to connect and learn, to process, and to grow into the incredible humans we know they are! To support our youth department in this year of rebuilding, and to celebrate our resilient and amazing teens, we are kicking off a BRAND NEW sponsorship program for Monday night dinners.
Each Monday up to 2 families or supporters can sponsor dinner with a donation of $180 each, in honor of a specific teen, alumni, or loved one. Both the sponsor and the honoree will be featured on the Temple Israel Instagram and Facebook pages.
You pick the day and the meal (does your teen have a favorite?!) and we do the rest! We appreciate your generosity and love as we work hard to give our teens a welcoming, safe, identity-building space to be themselves.
