Youth Group Dates (4/17)
For Fun Upcoming Youth Group Events:
February 27- Movie Night at the Temple
March 14 – Chocolate Seder
April 17 – Moonlight bowling
More information will be coming
Remember RiPTY ROCKS!
RiPTY's Chocolate Seder (3/21)
Come to RiPTY's Chocolate Seder
At the Reform Temple of Putnam Valley, Sunday March 21st from 2-4 pm. Cost is $10. Please eat lunch before you come. Bring a friend. It will be SWEET FUN!
Let me know who is coming as soon as possible.
See you there!
Youth Group Movie Night (3/13)
RiPTY Invites You to...
Youth Group Movie Night!
Come watch Chariots of Fire and eat snacks with your friends from RiPTY!
The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God; the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice.
Where?
The Reform Temple of Putnam Valley
When?
Saturday March 13
7:30 to 10 pm
How much?
$5
New Youth Group Board
It is with great excitement that I would like to announce our new Reform Temple of Putnam Valley Youth Group Board for 2009-10.
They are:
- President: Rachel Shapiro
- Social Action Vice President: Abigail Adgate
- Communications & Membership Vice President: Brenda Schoenfeld
- Programming Vice President: Austin DeMey
If you would like to share in the excitement by volunteering to help the youth group in any way such as, chaperoning events, sharing ideas for events, helping to fund events, lending us any fun stuff to use, please let me know. We are going to be doing fun events as well as social action events this year.
Thank you all for your help and support.
Stacy Shapiro, Youth Group Advisor
Youth Group Elections (6/6)
Are you a natural leader? Do people look up to you? Would you rather work behind the scenes? Do you like to create things on the computer? Do you like to plan fun things? Would you like have fun leading while doing something that would look good for college?
If the answer was YES to any of these questions, then you want to run for the Board of RiPTY, the official youth group of the Reform Temple of Putnam Valley.
This exciting event is taking place on
Saturday, June 6 from 3 - 4:30-ish pm.
EVEN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO RUN,
PLEASE COME AND VOTE FOR THOSE RUNNING.
The positions on our board for next year are:
President - The President oversees the other positions, works closely with the Youth Group Advisor (that's Stacy Shapiro), helps to plan and run events. If you are good at helping people work together as a team, this position is for you.
Programming Vice President - The Programming VP is in charge of planning our youth group events. You will have help from the board and other members, but you need to come up with ideas and ways to carry them out. So if you like to plan fun social events this position is for you.
Social Action Vice President - Here's where you can put all you have learned doing mitzvah projects in the temple or community service in the community to use. As a youth group we try to find ways to reach out to the community and be of service. If you like planning these kinds of events, and getting extra brownie points, this position is for you.
Membership and Communications Vice President - This position involves creating and sending out emails, advertising, and helping to expand our youth group membership. If you are creative on the computer, this position is for you.
Secretary - This person in this position will take notes at the youth group board meeting, send communications to the President and Youth Group Advisor as necessary and assist any of the VP's as needed. If you are organized and responsible, this position is for you.
The whole board will meet about once a month to plan events.
If you have any questions, would like to run, or if you'd like to participate but are unable to attend, please contact Stacy Shapiro before the elections.
Good luck!!!!
Youth Group Movie Night
Saturday January 31
Defiance
Defiance is about four Jewish brothers living in Nazi occupied Poland. They escape into the forest where they join up with Russian resistance fighters in battling the Nazis. Throughout the war they built a village inside the forest and saved the lives of more than 1200 other Jews. Based on a true story.
We are going to meet at the Cortlandt Town Center Movie theater at 6:45pm for a 7:10 movie, and ice cream after. The movie is 2 hours and 17 minutes, so pick up will be at 10pm.
The movie is rated R for violence and language. I am usually against taking teens to a movie rated R, but I believe this is an important movie. Rabbi Darnov has seen it and gives his approval.
I am also welcoming parents to join us for the movie (although you will have to sit in your own section).
Please feel free to bring your friends. I will have more info later this week.
PLEASE RSVP to me by Thursday so I know if enough people can come.
Hope to see you there,
Stacy
