PAST SERVICE TRIPS

 

2018-2019 Service Trips:

Puerto Rico Disaster Relief, Presidents' Week, Sunday, February 17- Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Join us in Puerto Rico to provide relief, that is still needed, as a result of the hurricanes that ravaged the island in 2017. Work with an Afya-affiliated organization, help Nechama with the rebuild efforts, meet members of the Boys and Girls Club of Puerto Rico and learn about the local Jewish community. Click here for more information and to register!

Getting Back to Our Roots Service Trip to New Orleans, Friday, January 18-Monday, January 21 2019
Join teens from J-Teen Leadership, Temple Israel Center and Temple Sholom in Greenwich, Ct., as we return to New Orleans, the site of the first service trip organized by J-Teen Leadership after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 

Over Veterans’ Day Weekend, November 9-12, J-Teen Leadership traveled to Philadelphia to participate in meaningful service and learning that focused on poverty issues, including youth at risk, community health care, and food insecurity. Prior to the trip, the teens collected 700 lbs of donated items, including toiletries, school supplies, and clothes. Throughout the weekend the teens provided community service to multiple populations. They sorted over 2,000 clothes items, packed 2,600 lbs of food, learned about the criminal justice system, wrote over 100 holiday cards to incarcerated individuals, helped clean up two community gardens, collected $570 in donations to be distributed to the organizations with which we volunteered, and more!

2017-2018 Service Trips:

As a result of the massive devastation of parts of the United States and the territories of U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico from recent hurricanes, J-Teen Leadership, through a generous grant from UJA-Federation's Time for Good volunteer initiative, was chosen to lead immersive service trips to Houston and other storm affected areas. Trips were held on the following dates: December 8th-11th (Teens Only), February 16th-19th (Presidents' Day Weekend), March 2nd-5th (8th and 9th graders with a parent), April 20th-23rd (Teens Only)

Teen Houston Volunteer Reflection:
"The most meaningful aspect of the work we did was when we helped with the less privileged people build their houses after all they had gone through. I think that this really made a difference for their lives and I’m sure they were very happy we did that."

2016-2017

Teens only service trip to Detroit, MI, May 2017  

Civil Rights Service Learning Trip for 8^th and 9^th graders with a parent to Atlanta Georgia, Birmingham and Montgomery Alabama, with Congregation Kol Ami and Cavalry Baptist Church, both of White Plains, February 2017 

MLK Day Weekend Service trip to Charleston, SC to the area recently hit by Hurricane Matthew. In partnership with Temple Sholom of Greenwich, CT, January 2017  

Stepping Up Detroit!
Friday, May 5 - Sunday, May 7, 2017
TEENS ONLY, 9th-12th grades, traveled to Detroit to engage in meaningful service and learning with our friends at Repair the World-Detroit. 

Shared Dreams...Civil Rights Journey
Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery and Atlanta
Sunday, February 19 - Wednesday, February 22, 2017 
Teens (8th - 9th grade) and parents traveled by plane together for an educational journey to some of the most important sites of the Civil Rights Movement. In partnership with Congregation Kol Ami and Calvary Baptist Church, both of White Plains. 

Charleston, Achshav! MLK Service Weekend in Charleston, SC
Friday, January 13 - Monday, January 16, 2017
Teens (9th - 12th grade) traveled by plane to Charleston, SC to the area recently hit by Hurricane Matthew. In partnership with Temple Sholom of Greenwich, CT

Boker Tov Baltimore!
Friday, November 11 - Sunday, November 13, 2016
Teens (9th - 12th grade) traveled by bus to Baltimore, MD to engage in meaningful service and learning with our friends of Repair the World, Baltimore.

Click here to read teen reflections on those trips

 2015-2016

MLK Day Weekend Service trip to Houston Texas, with Temple Israel of Northern Westchester, January 2016 Teen-led Humanitarian Trip to Havana, Cuba, for teens and their families with Westchester Reform Temple, February, 2016 

Civil Rights Service Learning Trip for 8^th and 9^th graders with a parent to Atlanta Georgia, Birmingham and Montgomery Alabama, with Congregation Kol Ami, March 2016 

MLK Day Weekend Service/Learning Trip to Detroit, MI, January 2015   

Teen-led Humanitarian Trip to Havana, Cuba, for teens and their families February, 2015

Civil Rights Service Learning Trip for 8^th and 9^th graders with a parent to Atlanta Georgia, Birmingham and Montgomery Alabama, with Congregation Sons of Israel, Briarcliff, March 2015

Service Trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Westhab, October 2015

"Still Stronger than Sandy" Service trip to Far Rockaway, Queens, Veteran’s Day, with Westhab and SAR High School, November 2015 

2013- 2014

MLK Day Weekend Service Trip to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, January 2014 

Teen-led Humanitarian Trip to Havana, Cuba, February 2014

"Still Stronger than Sandy" Service trip to Far Rockaway, Queens, Veteran’s Day, November 2014

MLK Day Weekend Service Trip to Brooklyn, January 2013

Teen-led Humanitarian Trip to Havana, Cuba, for teens and their families, February 2013

Alumni Service Trip to Haiti with the Afya Foundation, February 2013

2011-2012

"Shalom Y'All" to Gulf Coast - Biloxi, MS and New Orleans, April 2012

Teen-Led Humanitarian Mission Trip to Havana Cuba, for Teens and their Families, February, 2012

"Shared Dreams" Service Trip to Birmingham, Alabama (Teens only)

2011
Teen-Led Humanitarian Mission to Havana, Cuba for Teens and their Families, February 2011

"Shalom Y'All" Teen-Led Service Trip to Louisiana for Teens and Parents 

2010
Jewish Social Action Month Trip to Nashville, TN (Teens only)*

2009
Overnight Trip to Brooklyn – (Teens only) Jewish Social Action Month*

Teen-Led Humanitarian Mission to Havana, Cuba for Teens and their Families

2008
"Shalom Y’All" Teen-Led Service Trip to Louisiana for Teens and Parents

Lech L’cha Service Trip to Iowa for Jewish Social Action Month* (Teens only)

2007
NOMAD (New Orleans Mothers and Daughters) Service Trip to Louisiana  

Teen-Led Humanitarian Mission to Havana, Cuba for Teens and their Families

2006
Alternative Spring Break Service Trip to Louisiana for Teens and Parents, Pilot Project

*Trip made possible by a grant from UJA-Federation of New York for Jewish Social Action Month (JSAM)

Click here to read teen reflections on those trips