The ILN is the core of our Movement's leadership around the world. This network builds, shapes, and leverages the power of Jewish teens to strengthen our priorities, connect our communities, and develop new leaders. Opportunities are open for members from every community, regardless of position, grade, or past experience.
If you are new to the ILN, create a profile to apply for or join committees, clubs, and experiences. Write down the pin you create when setting up your profile to make joining any team quick and easy. You can update your profile or information anytime. If you have any issues, send us an email.
Be a part of shaping the next century of BBYO through the ILN. Any opportunity tagged with the 💯 emoji is a group that will be a part of shaping moments during the Centennial year. It's an incredibly special time to raise your hand to lead! Learn more about BBYO's Centennial.
Opportunities for teens to work together to plan events, mobilize the Movement, or work toward a shared goal on a project.
★ These roles are appointed or selected
Exclusive leadership experiences focused on building new skills and gaining content expertise.
★ These roles are appointed or selected
Global Israel Fellowship
The Global Israel Fellowship a unique, fully funded opportunity that provides a constructive space for young teen leaders from around the world to learn about, grapple with, explore, and engage with Israel.
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Reopens June 2024
Jewish Enrichment Target Chapters
Work one-on-one with one of BBYO's Jewish Enrichment Consultants to elevate Jewish programming in your chapter.
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Reopens June 2024
Reopens June 2024
Roles for teens to lead tracking, recruitment, and programming for Movement-wide experiences or initiatives.
★ These roles are appointed or selected
Teens from around the Movement can start or join a club around a topic, hobby, shared identity, or passion that they're interested in. All club events can be found on BBYO On Demand.
Any member, anywhere can be a Club Host. Start a Club here →
★ These opportunities are open to everyone
As Antisemitism increases, Jewish teens must step up to protect their communities. This club unites teens from around the order to discuss responses to antisemitism. Furthermore, it's a resource for leaders to facilitate events addressing antisemitism. A key focus of this club is the tangible antisemitism preparedness: helping regions facilitate active shooter training, antisemitism training, and more. Tangible training statistically save lives in attacks. As BBYO teens, we are in Jewish spaces, they must be prepared to respond.
Club Host: Josh Danziger, Lonestar
Interested in learning about architectural design, structural building engineering, and urban mega projects? This club is perfect for aspiring architects and engineers, or Alephs and BBGs who are simply interested in design.
Club Host: Jordan Lustig, Greater Jersey Hudson River
Passionate about art or mental health? Join this club to connect with a community of Alephs and BBGs that share your hobbies and let your creativity flow. We can't wait to see you at our next program.
Club Host: Noa Sussan, South Jersey
Alephs, this is your Club! Join us and learn about our history, traditions and culture, while sharing knowledge. In this Centennial year let's celebrate our birthday together; let's fill On Demand with the Spirit, rituals, and what define us in the movement. This is a hub for people to grow closer with one another in the order.
Club Host: Zack Feinsand, Max Rosen, Samuel Pass, and Jordan Lustig, Greater Jersey Hudson River: Central
Like to bake and don't know where to start? This is your club! Each holiday we would bake goods related to the holiday or BBYO, we will have fun making simple to complicated recipes as pretzels and frosting to hamentashen.
Club Host: Ana Savitt, Hudson Valley; Sage Hartman, Mid-America: North Star
Join our club to be part of the BBG spirit and spread the love to everyone. Support one and other to be inclusive members of their chapters, while learning/teaching BBG traditions and rituals.
Club Hosts: Madi Brand, Nassau Suffolk
The BBG Ruach club will work to help chapter leaders bring new and old traditions back into their home communities and unite members through siblinghood. We will teach BBGs how to recruit more members to their chapters and to make our network stronger.
Club Hosts: Ellie Malka, Evergreen; Julia Waldman, Pacific Western
Are you a BBG and you are Interested in knowing more about STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)? This club will enrich your interests in STEM, and cultivate you to discuss, and learn more about your interests. Come learn and make new friends, while empowering other BBG’s to be the best version of themselves by doing what they love and are passionate about.
Club Hosts: Eva Piskun, Gold Coast
This club is a safe, inclusive, and accepting environment for members of BBYO with Autism to be themselves, talk about their experiences on the spectrum, and make community.
Club Hosts: Rivi Jay, South Jersey
Missing Camp? This Club is your solution. Join while we talk about camp experiences, rituals, BBYO summer opportunities, and more. Connect with Aleph’s and BBG’s around the movement, and share why camp is so special. We believe that BBYO is like a summer camp throughout the year and is a way for us to connect with our friends from far away and to bond with our Jewish communities. Come discover your passion for summer camps as we all have one, and get ready for an amazing Summer 2024.
Club Hosts: Vera Jacobs and Ike Diamond, Lonestar; Rachel Lewin, Miami; Emma Berger, Delta
Chess lover, or maybe not? Doesn't matter; This club will connect you with members around the movement who share the passion of chess. Having trainings, tournaments and matches, as well as teaching new skills for how to turn into a pro champ. Come make new friends, and have fun while making connections and improving your chess techniques and skills.
Club Hosts: Ian Szerencsy, Nassau Suffolk
Interested in learning about business and finance through creative and fun initiatives. In this club, you would make connections, build your business idea, access the entrepreneurship tools, and learn the skills to be successful financially. You don’t need to be an expert on the topic, learn, and think together; the best businesses are the ones have multiple people involved and everyone works as a team, come be part of the best team. Within the BBYO Finance Club, they are two sectors of the club, with one focused on business content, and one focused on stock market content.
Club Hosts: Joshua Fleishman, Turner Getz, and Ike Diamond, Lonestar
Ever thought to network with your besties in BBYO? Come and discover your professional interests and create a plan to get there. Share ideas with other members and help each other grow their leadership skills.
Club Hosts: Morgan Rodriguez, Gold Coast
Let’s talk all things GREEN! the BBYO Green Team will focus on the impact and importance of progressing towards a net zero carbon emission lifestyle. Join other BBYO citizens and stewards of the planet as we decrease our carbon footprint.
Club Hosts: Ariella Ayenesazan, Greater Atlanta; Adam Bachrach, Northern Region East: DC
BBYO Sings is the place where musical leadership is fostered in BBYO. The goal is to build a cohort of musical leaders within BBYO who can lead their peers in worship, songleading, and community building through music.
Club Hosts: Julia Sabra, Eric Hunker, BBYO Director of Music and Aleph Engagement
Go to a boarding school? Want to meet other Jewish teens attending boarding schools from across the International Order? Join the boarding school club to make friends, share your boarding school experiences, attend virtual programming, and get more involved in BBYO.
Club Hosts: Shiraz Rothschild, Pacific Western
Reading & Chill? If you’re up for it, sign up for the Book Buffet club to read, share your thoughts and opinions on your book of choice and, of course, meet some new friends around the order.
Club Host: Mihaela Grigorova, Bulgaria
Join the Climate Crisis Club to build resources, learn, and make a difference for our most important resource - the environment. Take initiative with BBYO to help support the end of global climate change. Start here - there's no Planet B.
Club Host: Rabbi Meir Tannenbaum, BBYO Director of Jewish Enrichment
Interested in learning more about BBYO history books this Centennial year? Joining the Dealing in Futures Book Club will allow you to meet, discover and discuss different chapters of the archived BBYO books, while connecting with other Aleph's and BBG's around the movement.
Club Host: Emily Kolodney, AZA and BBG Movement Intern
The Diversity Culture Club gives you a space to share and explore the different cultures inside Judaism. Find new passions and make new friends. Open to Jewish people of all cultures, races, and ethnicities to join.
Club Host: Ike Diamond, Samuel Antonoff, Lonestar
Hub of idea generation, open conversation, and resource collection to bring Israel awareness and dialogue to the AZA & BBG experience around the world.
Club Host: Ofir Shinhertz, BBYO's Central Shaliach
Think you have the best outfit? Fashionably You is a hub for sharing fashion creations, outfits, and the influence fashion has on your life. Imagine being able to discuss how fashion has an influence around the world.
Club Host: Cayla Laiserin, Mountain
Love working out, staying fit, and getting your sweat on? Join the Fitness Club to feel empowered and workout with some friends across the Order.
Club Host: Ava Tringali, Connecticut Valley
This club is all about what Jewish people’s disposition in the world of sports: Jewish athletes, Jewish sports team owners, Maccabi games, and more.
Club Host: Ben Goldstein, Justin Baltuch, Greater Jersey Hudson River
Join this club to create experiences and safe-spaces, coach your peers, and build resources and programming for LGBTQ+ members and allies.
Club Host: Cay Katz, Nassau Suffolk
Mental health is an important priority. In this club, join other teens in a safe space to raise awareness for mental health well-being and breaking the stigma.
Club Host: Sophie Hershkowitz, Greater Atlanta; Sophie Tiger, Greater Jersey Hudson River: Central
The Military Teens Club welcomes all Jewish teens with a parent on active duty in the U.S. military or diplomatic corps. Join the club to connect with other Jewish teens who may have similar life experiences and attend virtual programming. Our goal is to build a fun, supportive BBYO community!
Club Host: Ruthie Perlman, BBYO's Manager of New Chapters and Community Expansion
This is a space for BBYO members-of-color. Join the MOC Alliance to meet other MOCs, find friends, resources games, and check up on how everyone’s doing.
Club Host: Morgan Rodriguez, Gold Coast
Do you have a hot take? Are you a gifted musician? Join Music Club to immerse your BBYO experience with fellow music enthusiasts through discussions, talent showcases, news updates, and more! Alephs and BBGs come together to debate, discuss, talk about, showcase, and highlight music of all kinds.
Club Host: Aaron Behar, Evergreen
A new Netflix Watch-Party that premieres new shows with Jewish aspects. Members can join, sit back and relax, and join our bi-monthly meetings.
Club Host: Harper Nickel, South Jersey; Ella Schwartz, Jolie Hirschhorn: Nassau Suffolk
Do you speak more than one language (or want to)? Come meet BBYO teens from all around the world and practice your abilities. All Aleph's and BBG's who are bilingual or multilingual and want a place to practice languages with other BBYO Members are welcome.
Club Host: Ella Rose Boolkin, South Africa; Ari Schwartz, South Jersey
Passionate about Jewish heroes in our lives? Stars of the Tribe Club celebrates Jewish champions in sports, music, and beyond to challenge stereotypes and build Jewish pride in a time of rising antisemitism through multimedia content.
Club Host: Nate Berman, Liberty
Want a place to get some work done while hanging out with Alephs and BBGs from around the Order?
The Study Buddies club is for whoever needs to catch up on school work and needs people to do it with. With breakout rooms for different subjects, and other hardworking teens to hang out with, you'll want to join us.
Club Host: Marissa Krieger, Ronit Hizgiaev, South Jersey; Ava Tringali, Connecticut Valley
If you’re a Swiftie, join this club! Meetings will include listening parties, trivia, theory sharing, analyzing lyrics, and more—a great way to make new friendships based on our shared interest.
Club Host: Talia Septimus, Gillian Lawrence, Lonestar
Club dedicated to the one and only Jewish rapper, Drake. Listening to parties for past and new albums, discussing how each song impacts the music world, and having fun activities related to the singer. Join the Drake Fans around the order and foster your connections.
Club Host: Zach Thorner, Rocky Mountain; Evan Drazin, North Texas Oklahoma
Come with us on an adventure into the world of plants! In The Secret Garden, we grow flowers, share our progress, paint, and make good friends while having fun. Enjoy a good time and do the things we love as is admiring and give love to nature.
Club Host: Mihaela Grigorova, Diana Noteva, Bulgaria
A club for those interested in theater to connect with each other and talk about our various experiences and shows!
Club Host: Brenna Halper, Northern Region East: DC
World traveler or want to be one? Together we'll share, teach, learn, and explore AZA and BBGs fom across the moment experiences traveling around the world.
Club Host: Matthew Agay, Great Midwest
Groups of teens unite in-person or virtually for travel, education, and Ambassadors exchanges.
★ Participation for these experiences is based on organizational role or selection by application
Ambassadors trips are week-long visits to BBYO communities around the world. The purpose of Ambassadors trips are to connect BBYO members globally, expose members to Jewish life in other parts of the world, attend special community gatherings, and foster a sense of global Jewish responsibility for members.
Opportunities to travel the world with BBYO during the school year will be announced soon. Check back here for more information.
August Execs is BBYO’s annual gathering of the highest-elected teen leadership (Teen Delegates) from every community across our Movement. During the conference, Alephs and BBGs come together to train on skills and strategies to finalize plans for the upcoming year. The conference will be filled with unique workshops, awesome programs, special events, and it will feature an International Business meeting.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for teens ages 18-19 (post high school) interested in having a unique Israel experience, coordinated and planned by Maccabi World Union. If you are looking for a meaningful year of exploring Israel, experiencing the Israeli culture and views, while learning and growing. Throughout the programs, there will be many opportunities to discover and see Israel from many perspectives while making connections to Jewish teens in Israel and from around the world.
Sibling Communities are partnerships where chapters from different communities are paired together. After filling out the form, your chapter will be matched with a sibling chapter to run events together, create pen pals and communication systems, share traditions and rituals, and so much more. All year long, sibling chapters will receive resources and special programming to have the opportunity to build an elevated global BBYO experience. Paired chapter-to-chapter, the Sibling Communities network will be empowered to make programming, Centennial celebrations, and these unique relationships their own.
Groups of teens with similar responsibilities in their communities.
★ These roles are elected locally, regionally, and internationally
Presidents are responsible for training and supporting local boards to ensure every chapter is healthy. All Regional and Country Presidents make up the Executive Body, AZA and BBG's core decision making group.
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The S'ganim Network focuses on BBYO's core product: experiences. They build great programs and teach others the ins-and-outs of planning events.
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The Morim Network focuses on supporting the recruitment, education, and retention of members in chapters. They ensure all new members are welcomed and hosted after joining BBYO.
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The Mazkirim Network focuses on communication, documenting meetings and experiences, social media, newsletters promotion, and connecting communities around the world.
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The Sh'lichim Network focuses on elevating, celebrating, and leading Judaic content, Israel programming, social action, and community service work.
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The Gizborim Network focuses on fundraising, stewarding the International Service Fund (ISF), managing money, grants, philanthropic efforts, and responsible fiscal behavior.
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