AShTY: Am Shalom Temple Youth (9th – 12th graders)
AShTY (Am Shalom Temple Youth) is our high school youth board. AShTY designs, plans, and executes their own events, with guidance from our youth programming team. Over the years, these events have included bonfires, beach parties, mini golf, sleepovers, and volunteering. Want to get involved? Reach out to Kadi House or Danny Marsh for more information, or join us for our weekly Wednesday night dinners at 6pm at Am Shalom!
AShTY is also involved with NFTY (North American Federation of Temple Youth), the Reform movement's youth division. We are part of NFTY-CAR (Chicago Area Region), where we participate in a multitude of events.
2019-2020 AShTY Board
Co-President: Elie Zieserl and Jack Bilow
Programming Vice President: Noah Glassberg
Social Action Vice President: Hannah Sussman
Religious and Cultural Vice Presidents: Evan Kalish and Zach Hopmayer
Membership Vice President: Jonah Hopmayer
Co-Treasurers: Max Kleinmann and Kyle Slavin
Secretary: Amanda Rossi
NFTY representative// NFTY CAR President: Josh Glucksman
General Board Members:
AJ Jamieson
Ally Kleinmann
Annie Scadron
Ari Glassberg
Ben Bakal
Ben Berkeley
David Sommer
Hailey Steinbeck
Jonah Shapiro
Jordan Meyers
Sam Gordon
**All 9th-12th graders are welcome to join the general board at any point during the year! If interested, please reach out to any of the people above!**
AShTY Board Positions
We have a variety of different positions on our AShTY Board. Our elections are held during a bonfire every year in May. Interested in running in the future? Contact Kadi House or Danny Marsh or any of the teens listed to the left!
President: Oversees the AShTY board and runs meetings.
Programming Vice President: Oversees the logistics of events and the planning process.
Social Action Vice President: Coordinates social action projects for AShTY.
Religious and Cultural Vice Presidents: Answers the question of "How will we make this event Jewish?"
Membership Vice President: Works with the rest of the board on inviting more Am Shalom teens to be a part of AShTY.
Treasurer: Manages our event budgets, books events, orders food, and designs new “swag” for AShTY
Secretary: Takes notes during our meetings and passing along important information to the group.
NFTY representative: Reprsents AShTY at NFTY events
General Board Member: Comes to AShTY meetings with event ideas to share with the rest of the board! General board members are a very crutial part of our AShTY community!
Am Shalom is proud to be a member of the Union for Reform Judaism.