The Charlotte Jewish News - December 2016 - Page 10
Youth Visions
What BBYO Means to Me
My name is Gabby Catenazzo,
I am a junior at Providence High
School and I am the president of
Chai Chaverim, one of the girl
BBYO chapters here in Charlotte.
I have grown up surrounded by
the Charlotte Jewish Community
so when I joined BBYO as a
freshman I had a few Jewish
friends my age but I didn’t know
a thing about the special family I
was about to be welcomed into.
Having a group of Jewish friends
I get to see every week separate
from the people at my school is
unique and such a pleasure during
the stressful school year. In
BBYO I not only get to de-stress
and have fun but do so while
learning so much about myself,
others, and what Judaism means
to me. BBYO has shown me the
importance of taking part in the
Jewish community and how being
part of a strong Jewish youth
movement is crucial to the future
of our people.
At the first BBYO program
with my chapter I looked at the
president and thought to myself
how smart and confident she was.
I thought it would be so amazing
if that could be me one day, but at
the time I thought it never could
be. But two short years later I de
cided to run for president of Chai
Chaverim and now I have so
much more confidence in my
leadership ability because of the
opportunities BBYO has provided
me and the amazing leaders and
friends I have gotten to look up to.
BBYO has taught me lifelong
skills that will take me far in what
ever I choose to do with my life. I
have become a more genuine,
open minded, and caring person
because of this organization. I
have also learned so much about
who I am and what I stand for.
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BBYO is an amazing movement
that fosters individuality while si
multaneously bringing people
closer together.
From the New Member Con
vention to attending the Chapter
Leadership Training Conference
this summer and every Tuesday
night program in between I could
not thank BBYO enough for all
the lifelong friendships, values,
and experiences it has given
me. ^
BBG’ers learn to bake challah with Sophie Molinari.
Left to right: Lila Cohen, Joanna Moody, Allison-
Leigh Rosenfeld, Alex Ketover
Left to right - Sklyer Selkin, Mylie Slomka, and
Isabella Turtletaub
Hebrew High’s Better ZGether Hosts
Guests from Black Ink Monks
Better 2Gether is a Hebrew
High class that joins two genera
tions together to explore their
Jewish heritage, thanks to a gen
erous grant from a prominent na
tional organization. This session
the group is focused on expressing
identity through art, both spoken
word and visual art.
To help the group of adults and
teens, they have been listening to
spoken word poetry, rap, and po
etry slams that express identity or
a Jewish value or ideal. The goal
is for several smaller groups,
made up of both adults and teens,
to create a spoken word poem
about Jewish identity that will
eventually be performed for all of
Hebrew High.
In November, the Black Ink
Monks from Johnson C. Smith
University, were guests at a class
of both Better 2Gether and the
Through the Jewish Lens art class.
Dasha, Diashanna, and TJ intro
duced the class to different ways
of expressing their emotions
through their five senses and
using classic figures of speech.
The writing prompt was about
family and everyone set about
writing some lines.
When the writing portion was
finished, the Black Ink Monks en
tertained the class with perform
ances of their own slam poems.
The class is now armed and
ready to create and present their
own poems.
The visual art aspect of the
class will be realized with a field
trip to the Mint Museum to see the
current exhibit of Women in Ab
stract Expressionism. A dispropor
tionate number of the women
artists in this genre were Jewish
and we hope to be able analyze
their products and see where the
common themes arise. ^
Harriet Weinstock and Lauren Mond work on their poem.
Diashanna talks about descriptive
use of language in creating poetry.
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Samantha Baum, Aaron Hart, and Janice Bernstein.
TJ performs his poem.