Page 14 - The Jewish Voice - April '25

Page 14, The Jewish Voice

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Local Teens “Shine On”
Jewish Pride

Recently, 22 local Jewish teens joined 5,000 Jewish teens
from around the world for the CTeen Shabbaton experience
in New York City.
Led by youth directors Rabbi Yisroel and Raizy Uzvolk,
teens were empowered for three days in an incubator of
Jewish pride. The action started the moment the group met
at the Palm Beach International Airport terminal, where teens
and their parents were treated to a fully kosher burger buffet
table.
At Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn, thousands of teens
from Chabad centers across the world mingled over ping pong
and other games and connected over dinner. The weekend
featured speeches, seminars, and a concert and Havdalah
ceremony in Times Square by popular Jewish music star and
former IDF paratrooper Noam Buskilla. Another highlight
was the contagious atmosphere of singing and dancing to the
tune of Jewish Pride at the top of the Freedom Tower, one of
the tallest observation decks in New York.
The weekend included Ground Zero, illusionists,
basketball and soccer tournaments, New York pizza, the
Ohel, the Statue of Liberty, Ted Talks from Jewish teens,
the Jewish Children’s Museum, riding the subway, and the
Mitzvah Tank.
One local teen delegate commented, “There was
something just so special about keeping Shabbos together
with 5,000 other teens.… When you are in a room with
hundreds of other Jews, all singing the same Shabbos songs,
it feels like something that’s out of this world.”
The closing ceremony focused on the Shabbaton’s theme
of Shine On — that the world and Israel can count on us to
serve our people, especially in these most pressing times —
and ended with a concert by Noam Buskilla and Lipa. Local Students Participate in Local JewQ champions were scheduled to compete at
JewQ Contest the grand JewQ championship finals in New Jersey, where
they were treated to a Shabbaton along with their parents
simchas Chabad of Palm Beach and over 1,000 participants from around the world.

Gardens Hebrew School
Milo Caplan recently staged a game
show and award ceremony
to honor JewQ contestants,
Milo Caplan was who have participated
called to the Torah in an extracurricular
as a Bar Mitzvah on Torah championship this
April 5, 2025. Milo is academic year. Students
in the seventh grade pushed themselves to learn
at Bak Middle School Judaic studies to participate
of the Arts, where in the JewQ championship,
he is majoring in the spelling bee of Torah.
Communications. While The program included
born in New York City a game show in which
(and he loves referring participants answered
to himself as a New questions from across
Yorker), Milo has called Palm Beach Gardens home their extensive curriculum.
for the past nine years. He loves the beach and During the three rounds,
outdoors, hanging with family and friends, collecting participants had to express
baseball cards, volunteering at Peggy Adams and answers in a different way.
Petco, and cheering for the Miami Heat in his free First they had to display
time. the correct letter card to the
multiple choice questions
Send us your simchas! The Jewish Voice that appeared on the
welcomes announcements of life-cycle events screen, then they used red
and green glow sticks to
in the local Jewish community. The copy indicate answers. The final
deadline is the 15th of the month. Send text round included a frantic
and images to bernstein.wendy@gmail.com. 60-second competition in
which participants had to
list as many correct answers
to the question as possible.

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