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THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.

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do. I don't know what made me
decide (to go to MJAC), but I was
looking for a place that I could volun-
teer where I would be able to bring
my creativity, where it wouldn't be the
same thing day after day," she said.
But nothing could have prepared
her for the training sessions to become
a teen facilitator for MJAC presenta-
tions. The frank and graphic discus-
sions about sex were more than the
shy teen expected.
"It was quite a candid discussion,"
Tali recalled. "It was a lot more open
than I ever imagined. But what really
interested me a lot was fighting AIDS
and getting the word out."
As a volunteer, she visited a num-
ber of Jewish schools and synagogues,
teaching about safe sex and risky
behaviors, about abstinence and con-
dom use. She later became a youth
liaison to the board, a position with
voting power.
Miriam Lieberman, a senior at
North Farmington High School, met
Tali when they were presidents of
B'nai B'rith Girls chapters last year.
She said Tali's enthusiasm for MJAC
lured her to volunteer.
"She was very involved in it and
very enthusiastic about it," Miriam
said. "She was going to be doing some
work at some of the schools around us
and asked if I would help."
Tali also made suggestions that later
became changes in the curriculum.
She brought friends to training ses-
sions and inspired others to join.
Currently, she is devoting three hours
a week to the organization through a
program at Groves that teaches the use
of personal skills through community
agencies.
"I have seen Tali grow and change
dramatically since she started here,"
said Nitzkin. "She was a little shy, a
little quiet at first. Then, she was
forming her opinions and social con-
sciousness. Now, she has definite
opinions and expresses them. She has
developed into an excellent public
speaker and speaks beautifully, elo-
quently before an audience. She has
been very inspirational."
While Tali's national award has
been kind of heady, she almost forgot
that she had applied, for it two months
ago. When a thick package from the
National AIDS Fund arrived in the
mail, she was elated.
"My mom was out of town at the
time so I called her to tell her. She was
screaming into the phone she was so
excited," Tali said.
But truthfully, right now Tali is

hunkering down to complete her
school work while beating the dead-
lines for college applications.
Although she gained early acceptance
to the University of Michigan, Tali
will send out more than a half-dozen
applications to other top schools in
the next few weeks.
She is not clear yet about her career
path. It certainly won't be anything in
math or science, her worst subjects.
More likely, she said, it will be some-
thing in the community service field.
"I love working with people," she
said. "I want to be anywhere I can be
,
making a difference.'

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Nen Hosts

Cyber•Shabbat

The National Conference of
Synagogue Youth (NCSY), a division
of the Orthodox Union, will offer
teens a special way to celebrate,
through a virtual retreat, the evening
of Dec. 31.
Under the leadership of national
director Rabbi David Kaminetsky,
NCSY has created a Virtual
Shabbaton so that participants can
experience the song, dance and learn-
ing of a typical NCSY gathering with-
out leaving their homes.
"In all the hype about the new mil-
lennium, the part that gets over-
looked, from a Jewish standpoint, is
that Dec. 31 is a Friday night —
Shabbat — an infinitely more signifi-
cant occasion," said Rabbi
Kaminetsky.
All of the ingredients of a
Shabbaton will be available on the
OU Web site (www.ou.orghicsy) dur-
ing the week preceding the new year.
NCSYers will be able to download
pre-Shabbat material, highlights from
the week's Torah portion and lectures
on a variety of topics, including the
contrast between the solar and the
lunar calendars and the history of
Shabbat celebrations over the last
5,760 years.
The one caveat to the cyber-
Shabbat is that all of the online mate-
rials must be accessed before the start
of the Shabbat at sundown on Friday
evening. However, once Shabbat ends
on Saturday night, the festivities will
continue on the Internet with an
inspirational Havdala service to end
the event.
Though designed for regular NCSY
participants, the Virtual Shabbaton is
open to anyone.