Yuval Yisrael is a 3.5-week summer teen Israel experience for current 10th-12th graders powered by Ramah Israel and USY. The program will take participants through a transformative Israel journey including volunteering, deep dives into Israeli culture, joyful Shabbatot, leadership development, team building, touring, and hiking. An optional Eastern Europe program is available as well. Ramah and USY have decades of experience in designing meaningful and educational Israel programs for teens, the Conservative/Masorti movement’s future leaders. Please join us!
The Tikvah Scholars Program is an 11-day residential summer institute for current 11th and 12th graders. We seek students who want to think deeply about serious questions, push their intellectual limits, and read the great works of the Jewish canon and of Western thought with world-class faculty in a vibrant and pluralistic community of students from around the world. The program seeks to advance Jewish excellence in the modern age by exposing some of the best Jewish students to the most important foundational questions in politics, economics, Zionist thought, and Judaism, guided by some of the top teachers, scholars, and policy makers.
A signature year-long supplemental leadership program for high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors that combines ideas, identity, and community.
community of students from around the world. The program seeks to advance Jewish excellence in the modern age by exposing some of the best Jewish students to the most important foundational questions in politics, economics, Zionist thought, and Judaism, guided by some of the top teachers, scholars, and policy makers.
A flagship gap year program for North Americans between high school and college that features a year of study in Jerusalem alongside Israeli peers.
Week-long, interactive service-oriented summer program on wheels focusing on poverty, hunger, homelessness, environmental concerns, caring for the elderly, and leadership skills. Camp, which can serve as a bar/bat mitzvah service project, is for seventh- through 10th-graders from throughout Chicago and its suburbs.
A yearlong fellowship for high school students interested in exploring topics in leadership, social justice, Jewish identity, and Israel. Fellows participate in local workshops and retreats, host Diller teens from JUF’s partnership region in Israel, and travel to Israel for a three-week seminar with Diller Teen Fellows from around the world.
A selective 10-month paid internship where high school-aged girls will learn University-level research skills as tools for social change. Interns will be paid a stipend for their work, and will have opportunities to present their findings to Jewish community leaders in a variety of settings.
Created for Jewish teens of all backgrounds who are interested in having fun, making friends, and discovering new experiences. Teens and their families learn about exciting and meaningful ways to get involved in the Chicagoland Jewish community, including local programs and highly subsidized school break trips and skill-building experiences. Springboard also offers professional development opportunities for Jewish youth professionals, lay leaders, and volunteers.
Provides monthly meetings for teens to learn about philanthropy and grant-making, discuss issues of social justice, learn how to request and evaluate grant proposals, and ultimately allocate $25,000 to organizations working to repair the world.
Launchpad is a program to build community, connections, and confidence for Chicagoland’s young Jews as they transition from 8th grade to high school, high school to college, and college to the workforce. Through fun, interactive, and engaging workshops our Jewish professionals and community experts will ensure that young Jews are prepared to face whatever the future has in store for them- everything from getting to know other Jewish students, learning about leadership opportunities, preparing to tackle tough assignments, or being ready to respond to antisemitism. Wherever you are in life, you won’t want to miss out!
Student to Student is a proven, classroom-based experiential program that brings Jewish and non-Jewish high school students together to learn about Judaism through personal storytelling. Jewish high school Student Presenters visit local high schools with few, if any, Jewish students to share their Jewish practices and experiences. Our program is offered in select locations throughout the country. Student to Student is the signature program of Be The Narrative, a national 501 (c)(3) organization.
Great Midwest Region spans across Illinois, primarily in and around the Chicagoland area; including Chicago, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Northbrook, Skokie, Wilmette, Naperville, Homewood/Flossmoor, and our newest community in Champaign! Chicago chapters meet at Anshe Emet Synagogue.
Through youth-led and staff-supported programs, BBYO Great Midwest Region gives our members opportunities to develop leadership skills and positively affect their communities, the world, and themselves. We constantly strive to provide more Jewish teens with more meaningful Jewish experiences each and every day, so that they may become the future Jewish leaders in their communities and in the Jewish world at large.
CHUSY is the Chicago-based region of United Synagogue Youth (USY). CHUSY includes local chapters from Chicago as well as Madison and Milwaukee, WI and Northwest Indiana.
