JUMP constantly challenged us to answer many of the tough questions of today and demonstrate our capacities as leaders. Along with leadership skills, we learned to work as a team in order to solve difficult problems. In addition, JUMP allowed us to bond and cooperate, not only amongst ourselves, but with other young leaders from all […]
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When Tomer Locker (10th grader in public school) first approached me about forming an NCSY Savannah JUMP team I had many hesitations. Savannah literally has a tiny Jewish population. Many cities that people consider small have at least 25,000-30,000 Jews. Savannah has only 3,000 Jews! I began wondering who will run all these JUMP programs? […]
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The JUMP experience put us in a situation of responsibility and because of this we learned how to successfully plan something and then follow through with it. JUMP taught us how to work as a team even when we all have very different ideas. It emphasized the importance of core values of Judaism such as […]
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