About JUF Tweens
The JUF Tween Page is the place for you to chill out, learn about volunteer opportunities, read about what your friends are doing for their bar and bat mitzvahs, check out the buzz on the hottest Jewish celebrities, learn how to make yummy holiday snacks, find out about cool Jewish movies, take a virtual-reality tour of Israel, and play some games that can introduce you to some Jewish sports heroes... and even yourself!
Is "green" a Jewish color? You bet! Find out more about Jewish ways to help the environment. And if you are a real Mitzvah Maniac, you can join TOV for Spring Mitzvah Mania!
And this summer, you can go to camp while making a difference by joining Camp TOV! Read about it here... then sign up for it here!
Jewish Olympic Medals: 2008
Israel got a medal in 2008! A bronze for windsurfing. Mazel tov!
One of Great Britain's Jewish athletes won a silver for rowing, and one of Agentina's won a bronze for field hockey.
American Jewish athletes won a silver for fencing, but did best in the swimming pool... with a bronze, three silvers and an amazing five golds! Wow... if all Jews could swim like that, Moses wouldn't have needed to part the sea!
Here's who left Beijing with some precious medals:
SPORT |
NAME |
COUNTRY |
GOLD |
SILVER |
BRONZE |
Fencing |
Sada Jacobson |
USA |
|
1 |
|
Hockey |
Gisele Kanevsky |
Argentina |
|
|
1 |
Rowing |
Josh West |
Great Britain |
|
1 |
|
Swimming |
Jason Lezak |
USA |
2 |
|
1 |
Swimming |
Dara Torres |
USA |
|
3 |
|
Swimming |
Garrett Weber-Gale |
USA |
2 |
|
|
Windsurfing |
Shahar Zubari |
Israel |
|
|
1 |
We've Got Mail!
Yes! Our Celebrity Corner got its first piece of fan mail! From one of the Celebrities themselves!! We're so excited, we're going to use up all our exclamation points!!! Here's the letter!!!!
Dear JUF,
My name is Halley Feiffer -- I'm an actress who is featured on your Jewish Celebrity list in the Tween section of your website. I just wanted to thank you for this nice mention about me and my father, Jules Feiffer. I just stumbled upon it and find it really delightful. What a great website.
Best,
Halley
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