I've Been In Young Judaea Too Long.
(A True Story)
Life began for me in July 1988. I was ten years old (you do the math on how old I am now) and my parents decided to send me to some summer camp in New York, a few miles away from Poughkeepsie. It ended up being Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake. Notice the link to Sprout. 12 years later, I am the webmaster of their website. Sprout Lake was the door which brought me into this wonderful world called Young Judaea.

I've seen many different aspects of Young Judaea. Sprout, Tel Yehudah, Machon, Year Course? Did them all. I've been to club meetings and conventions, sat through endless Asephot. In addition, I worked at Sprout for five summers (not counting the infamous MT of 1993). And the webpages, and the politics.

So I was sifting through my hard drive and found all these useless things from the last few years, momentos of all the time I have spent in this movement. Most of the stuff has been written by Jonathan Weiss, who I have known since that summer of 1988 at Sprout. Since I have nothing to do with this stuff, and I'm bored, I am going to share almost ALL of this useless stuff with you, the purveyor of fine internet stuff.

Note: You will not find any Year Course memories here. They can be found on another site which Jon Weiss and I have been working on since we were on Year Course in 1996-1997. Bet is Better.

Click here for:

The 1993 Sprout Lake MT Oneg
A picture of me leading Friday Night T'fillot on my own for Machon 2 in Jerusalem on July 15, 1994, my 16th birthday. (Thank you Charlie Roffe)
1995 MH Video Hatsagah(which, we must say, was never produced)
1995 MH 2nd Session Hatsagah (Marc Nathan portion)
The Sam Schlam YJ T Shirt Design


Proposed Ammendments to the National Chukah:
National Mazkirut members must go on Year Course
FZY Kesher Ammendment
MERAKEZ/ET PIRSUMIM AMMENDMENT
Social Action Day Ammendment
TARBUT ARTZI LEUMI RESOLUTION
TIKUN OLAM ARTZI AMMENDMENT
Sounds

Benji Unplugged: Atid 1993

Wouldn't It Be Great if the Shabbas could last the whole week through?
Everyone Knows It's Shabbas
I'd Like to Teach....
It's Not Too Big...
Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat, Shabbat Shabbat Shalom
Every Single Word
Not LOUDer, HIGHer
It's the Real Thing
B-3

EJF
OK
OJ Theory 1
OJ Theory 2
Giggle
Ask the question
Hi Ian
Hey Ian Ian

Top Ten Things You Won't Let Me Put on TV
From the home office at..... Home.
Boo
Boo (long)
Boy does this really suck.
America.

Bogrim 1991 (really)
Jay Lasus saying "You're welcome."


Top Ten Lists
(From the Home Office in Verbank, NY)
by Jonathan Weiss

Summer 1995
Top 10: Quotes from MH Aleph 1st Session 1995
Top 10: Reasons for people to be in MH - Aleph Second Session 1995
 
Top 10: Reasons to be in MT.
Top 10: Reasons to attend Young Judaea National Summer Convention 1995
Top 10: Reasons to be in New Jersey/Staten Island Young Judaea
Top 10: Ganai Yehudah (NJ/SI) Convention Pickup Lines.

YJ Listserve 1996
TOP TEN: Things Ian and I will do to the next person that posts anything that remotely resembles a chain letter to this listserve.
TOP TEN: Reasons to do Machon in Israel '96.
TOP TEN: Reasons to do National Summer Convention 1996
TOP TEN: Reasons to join the YJ listserve.


Photos
Florida, April 1996