Senior Youth Group

GRSLY (Glastonbury Reform Synagogue Leadership Youth) is Kol Haverim’s Senior Youth Group.  Our senior youth group provides social, cultural, and informal education programming for 9th-12th young people in 9th-12th grade.  Membership in our senior youth group is open to all Kol Haverim members and to Jewish young people who reside in the Glastonbury area.  We are affiliated with NFTY (National Federation of Temple Youth), the youth movement of the Union for Reform Judaism.

GRSLY youth group activities include events like our annual movie night, youth group Shabbat service, monthly “Lounge Nights” and  our end of year Shul-in.  We also take part in NFTY – Northeast regional youth dances, weekend conclavettes, and educational institutes during school vacations.

For more information about our youth programs, please contact Xani Pollakoff, our youth advisor, at 847-814-2779.

Soda Pop Top Project - NEW: See our Facebook Page - CLICK HERE

The Glastonbury Reform Synagogue Leadership Youth (GRSLY) will be collecting soda can and soup can “Pull Tabs” for the Shriners Hospitals for children in the Massachusetts area. “Pull Tabs” will be collected at the conveniently located Soda Pop Top Drop at Congregation Kol Haverim, on GRSLY bulletin board, across from the office. Tabs will be collected starting on November 1, 2008 and will be ongoing. For further infomation, click on the following documents:

- Soda Pop Top Project Fact Sheet (PDF file)
- Soda Pop Top Project Brochure (PDF file)

Plans for a New Junior Youth Group

For the 2008-2009 school year, we also have plans for a brand new Junior youth program for middle school age students.  More info on this coming soon!

Nothing But Nets - Please Support!

A major charity this year for us will be Nothing But Nets. A brief description is below:

Nothing But Nets is a grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. While the UN Foundation has been working with the UN to fight malaria for years, it was a column that Rick Reilly wrote about malaria in Sports Illustrated, challenging each of his readers to donate at least $10 for the purchase of an anti-malaria bed nets -- and the incredible response from thousands of Americans across the country -- that led to the creation the Nothing But Nets campaign. For further information and to make a donation, please CLICK HERE.