Shalhevet JUMP Team Tamar Yastrab, Meira Nussbaum, Ava Korman, Tamar Beer and Mentor Malky Blisko
Shalhevet JUMP Team Tamar Yastrab, Meira Nussbaum, Ava Korman, Tamar Beer and Mentor Malky Blisko
Shalhevet JUMP Team Tamar Yastrab, Meira
Nussbaum, Ava Korman, Tamar Beer and
Mentor Malky Blisko

The Shalhevet NCSY JUMP team members were JUMPing for joy as they tied for first place with SKA in the NCSY JUMP boardroom competition. NCSY JUMP is a national leadership program that creates challenges for high-school students nationwide to complete in order to become more confident, more self-sufficient, and develop the strength and courage to become leaders. The challenges consisted of poverty awareness, the dangers of texting and driving, Israel advocacy, and a fundraiser. The Shalhevet team, consisting of Miriam Blonder, Tamar Beer, Leah Feder, Hadassah Fertig, Tova Gordon, Ava Korman, Aviva Marmer, Ayelet Nussbaum, Meira Nussbaum, Shana Schapira, Adi Weinberg, Tamar Yastrab, and mentor Malky Blisko, created and executed unique and positive programs that proved to be successful. The team worked together to pull off a wonderful Zumba night raising $9,000 to benefit FD NOW and collected over 400 pairs of shoes that were donated to Batya, an organization that empowers teenage girls. The team members gathered pledges from friends, family, teachers, and celebrities to not text and drive, and they created a video at Dave & Busters, racing arcade games to prove the perils of texting and driving. The girls also interviewed Lone Soldiers and brought in Or Carmeli, sister of Sgt. Sean Carmeli, who was killed over the summer in Operation Tzuk Aitan, to speak at Shalhevet. The team was ecstatic when they heard they made it to Boardroom, and were thrilled to meet the other finalists, who also left positive impacts in their respective communities. The Shalhevet team thanks the wonderful panel of judges, Rabbi Steven Weil, Mr. Larry Gordon, Mr. Phil Rosen, Rabbi Allen Fagin, Mrs. Allison Josephs, and Mr. Raanan Agus, as well as Mrs. Carol Rhine for coordinating the JUMP competition and providing brilliant and innovative activities.

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