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'''NCSY''' (formerly known as the '''National Conference of Synagogue Youth'''<ref name=NathanKazis>{{cite news|title=Rabbis Still Want Role in Abuse Cases |first=Josh |last=Nathan-Kazis |url=http://forward.com/articles/116779/rabbis-still-want-role-in-abuse-cases/ |newspaper=[[The Jewish Daily Forward]] |date=October 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420044936/http://forward.com/articles/116779/rabbis-still-want-role-in-abuse-cases/ |archive-date=April 20, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=YUNews>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.yu.edu/news/2009/04/02/yeshiva-college-honors-student-zev-eleff-publishes-book-on-history-of-ncsy/ |title=Yeshiva College Honors Student Zev Eleff Publishes Book on History of NCSY |author=Yeshiva University |author-link=Yeshiva University |date=April 2, 2009 |publisher=Yeshiva University |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121211132924/http://blogs.yu.edu/news/2009/04/02/yeshiva-college-honors-student-zev-eleff-publishes-book-on-history-of-ncsy/ |archive-date=December 11, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>) is a Jewish youth group under the auspices of the [[Orthodox Union]], which is Zionist and a member of the [[American Zionist Movement]]. Its operations include Jewish-inspired [[After-school activity|after-school programs]]; summer programs in [[Israel]], [[Europe]], and the [[United States]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://summer.ncsy.org/|title=Jewish Teen Summer Trips|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> weekend programming, [[shabbaton]]s, retreats, and regionals; Israel advocacy training; and disaster relief missions known as [[chesed]] (kindness) trips.<ref name="OU">[http://www.ou.org/oupr/2000/comm/ncsybg.htm ''NCSY Background'', Orthodox Union, 2000] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070410230831/http://www.ou.org/oupr/2000/comm/ncsybg.htm |date=April 10, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://summer.ncsy.org/|title=Jewish Teen Summer Trips|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://reliefmissions.ncsy.org/|title=Home|website=NCSY Relief Missions|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}}</ref> NCSY also has an alumni organization on campuses across North America.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.ncsy.org/|title=NCSY ALUMNI -|website=NCSY ALUMNI|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>

== History ==
In 1959, NCSY hired Rabbi [[Pinchas Stolper]] as the first National Director in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dEgcAAAAMAAJ |title=Saul Bernstein, ''The Renaissance of the Torah Jew'' (KTAV Publishing, 1985), pp. 274, 339 |isbn=9780881250664 |access-date=2012-07-04|last1=Bernstein |first1=Saul |year=1985 |publisher=Ktav Publishing House }}</ref>

During the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, the Orthodox youth of NCSY opposed social change, choosing instead to emphasize religious tradition.<ref name="Diamond">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAY7wbRhHcIC&pg=PA110 |title=Etan Diamond, ''And I Will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), ISBN 0-8078-4889-1, p. 104 |date=2000-10-30 |isbn=9780807848890 |access-date=2012-07-04|last1=Diamond |first1=Etan |publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press }}</ref> In this period, at least one NCSY chapter took public action on this point, passing a resolution rejecting [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] and other drugs as a violation of [[Halakha|Jewish law]].<ref name="Diamond" /> At the 1971 NCSY international convention, delegates passed resolutions in this vein, calling for members to "forge a social revolution with [[Torah]] principles."<ref name="Diamond" />

According to the Orthodox [[Sociology|sociologist]] Chaim Waxman, there has been an increase in [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] influence on NCSY since 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jcpa.org/cjc/cjc-waxman-f05.htm |title=Winners and Losers in Denominational Memberships in the United States - Chaim I. Waxman |publisher=Jcpa.org |access-date=2012-07-04}}</ref> Waxman based this on NCSY's own sociological self-study.<ref>Nathalie Friedman, Faithful Youth: A Study of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (New York: National Conference of Synagogue Youth, 1998).</ref>

==See also==
* [[Orthodox Union]], the sponsoring organization of NCSY
* [[KEDMA]], an Orthodox college outreach group
* [[United Synagogue Youth]], the youth group of [[Conservative Judaism]]
* [[National Federation of Temple Youth]], the youth movement of [[Reform Judaism]]
* [[Young Judaea]], the pluralist [[Zionism|Zionist]] [[youth movement]] of [[Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America|Hadassah]]
* [[BBYO]], the leading non-denominational Jewish youth movement
* [[Bnei Akiva]]
* [[Pinchas Stolper]]
* [[Aryeh Kaplan]]

==External links==
*[http://www.ncsy.org/ National Conference of Synagogue Youth Official website]

==Notes==
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