Andrew Keene

Andrew Keene is a member of Congregation Shalom in Milwaukee, WI, and a current member of the Union for Reform Judaism’s board of trustees and the World Union for Progressive Judaism’s executive board. As the 2013-2014 North American president of NFTY, the Reform Jewish youth movement, Andrew took a gap year to commit to youth engagement in NFTY regions and local Jewish communities. Andrew is an entrepreneurship student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, and recently spent his fifth summer at URJ Kutz Camp, a Reform Jewish teen leadership summer camp in Warick, N.Y., as a member of the summer leadership team.

Large congregational group holding the Israeli flag and WE LOVE ISRAEL signs while standing on a synagogue bimah

Strengthening Progressive Judaism Means Swimming Upstream. Here's How.

Andrew Keene

If we want to strengthen progressive Judaism worldwide, we must swim upstream. There is no single better way to support Progressive, Liberal, and Reform Judaism in every corner of the globe than casting a ballot for “Vote Reform” in the American election to the World Zionist Congress. 

A New Era of NFTY

Andrew Keene
By Andrew Keene An unidentified scholar teaches us, "Blessed is the generation in which the old listen to the young, and doubly blessed is the generation in which the young listen to the old." For 75 years, NFTY, the North American Federation of Temple Youth, continues to serve as the link between the past, present, and future of Reform Judaism. NFTY traces its roots to 1939, when it was established by the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods (now Women of Reform Judaism) as a collegiate organization for Reform Jewish teens. Since 1939, NFTY, a movement anchored in synagogue-based youth groups, has evolved to meet the needs of Reform Jewish young adults across North America.