LET THERE BE LIGHT יהי אור
DECEMBER 7-8 | 30 כסלו
Each year, Holocaust survivors, business professionals, faith leaders, cross-cultural activists, politicians, and entrepreneurs join with Alephs and BBGs worldwide to share inspiring stories and take part in a meaningful, teen-led Shabbat experience. This year’s Global Shabbat program theme, “Let There Be Light,” will be embraced and elevated around the world through a diverse array of thoughtful programming designed to bring the community together around the lights of Shabbat.
This year's theme was Let There Be Light, which draws inspiration from the quote by the celebrated Jewish author, Noble Laureate, and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel: "Even in darkness it is possible to create light." Let's bring light and love to all people everywhere through Global Shabbat and beyond. Learn about our inspiration for this theme by watching a recap of Shabbat to Remember from International Kallah 2018.
Check out some of the amazing guests and partners who participated in BBYO's Global Shabbat 2018 worldwide.
Head Rabbi, Congregation Shaare Torah
Montgomery County, MD
Treasurer, Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
Great Neck, NY
Songleader & Music Educator
Boston, MA
Former Executive Director, Ecumenical Hunger Program
Los Gatos, CA
Spiritual Leader at Congregation Or Tzion
Scottsdale, AZ
Exec. Coordinator, Beautiful Me
Great Neck, NY
Holocaust Survivor, Author and Educator
Richmond Hill, ON
Regional Director, American Jewish Committee of Northern California
Great Neck, NY
Speaker & Holocaust Survivor
Chicago, IL
Arizona Regional Director for Anti-Defamation League
Scottsdale, AZ
Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix
Scottsdale, AZ
Director, Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel
Baltimore, MD
Co-Founder and President of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Arizona
Scottsdale, AZ
Educational Councilor, Healthy Development Dept., Government of Buenos Aires City
Buenos Aries, Argentina
InterfaithCouncil of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Southern New Jersey
Cherry Hill, NJ
Assistant Director of North American Ministries for The Friends of Israel
Cherry Hill, NJ
Young Jewish Transgender Activist
London, United Kingdom
Director of Eastern Canada Corporate Sales, Global Business Payments at Scotiabank
Vaughan, ON
Holocaust Survivor and Educator
Montgomery County, MD
Physician Leader, Medical Educator, Health Coach and Author
Scottsdale, AZ
Grace Baptist Church Homeless Outreach Coordinator
Los Gatos, CA
West Coast Campus Coordinator, CAMERA
Montgomery County, MD
Former Neo-Nazi, Speaker and Educator
Toronto, ON
Executive Director, Community Services Agency ofMountain View and Los Altos
Los Gatos, CA
Senior Rabbi, Temple Shalom
Dallas, TX
Principal, The Raben Group
Cleveland, OH
Mayor of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Holocaust Education Specialist
Milwaukee, WI
Account Executive, kglobal and Founding Member of Beyla BBG
Bethesda, MD
SVP Marketing, Live Nation (JUMP.DC)
Montgomery County, MD
Rabbinical Student, Jewish Theological Seminary
Cherry Hill, NJ
Senior Programming Associate, Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity
Cleveland, OH
United Church of Christ (Scottsdale Congregational UCC)
Scottsdale, AZ
Rabbi-in-Residence, Hazon and Beíchol Lashon
Danbury, CT
Inclusion Advocate and Stand-up Comic
Denver, CO
CEO of Shalom Austin and Former Grand Aleph Godol
Austin, TX
Executive Director of Kansas City Interfaith Youth Alliance and Faith Always Wins
Kansas City, MO
Senior Development Associate, Mid-Atlantic Region at Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Rockville, MD
Student, American University Law School and Founding Member of Beyla BBG
Bethesda, MD
CEO & Founder, Hope for Henry Foundation
Rockville, MD
First Counselor, Paradise Valley Stake Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Scottsdale, AZ
Founder, Central Florida Freethought Community
Orlando, FL
Last year, we brought the community together like never before. More than 500 local BBYO chapters in 20 countries participated in Global Shabbat.
Global Shabbat events popped up all over the world. Check out some of the incredible experiences from Global Shabbat 2018.
Atlanta 12/7/18 | Global Shabbat International Fair
Austin 12/8/18 | Shining Light on Jewish Life in Austin @ UT Hillel
Baltimore 12/8/18 | Cross-cultural + Interfaith Havdallah w/ the Muslim Community Cultural Center of Baltimore and ECYP
Belgrade 12/15/18 | Community Global Shabbat Program
Bend 12/7/18 | Shabbat Service + Fundraiser for Kids4Peace
Bethesda 12/7/18 | Global Shabbat Potluck Dinner
Bethesda 12/7/18 | Shining Light on Gun Violence + Candle-Making Shabbat
Bethesda 12/7/18 | Alumni Engagement Shabbat w/ Founding Chapter Members Birmingham 12/8/18 | Hanukkah Closing Party, Gift Swap + Havdallah
Boca Raton 12/7/18 | Brotherhood Overnight Shabbat + Inductions
Boca Raton 12/7/18 | Shining Light on Gun Violence and Anti-Semitism Shabbat
Boca Raton 11/29/18 | Sisterhood Shabbat Under the Stars
Boston 12/8/18 | Havdallah @ the Boston Bruins Warrior Ice Arena
Boynton Beach 12/7/18 | Global Shabbat Around the World
Bratislava 12/15/18 | Community Global Shabbat Program
Brookeville 12/7/18 | Let There Be Light Potluck + Survivor's Story Shabbat
Brooklyn 12/7/18 | Togetherness Shabbat Dinner
Brooklyn 12/7/18 | The Underdog Story: Hanukkah Global Shabbat @ Temple Sholom of Flatbush
Budapest 12/7/18 | Parent + Teen Community Oneg
Buenos Aires 12/7/18 | Women Wage Peace Shabbat, featuring Mariela Icicson
Atlanta
Chardon 12/14/18 | Shining Light on Teen Activism Shabbat
Charleston 12/8/18 | Global Shabbat and White Elephant Hanukkah Gift Exchange Charlotte 12/7/18 | Acceptance Shabbat with Time Out Youth
Cherry Hill 11/30/18 | Interfaith Shabbat with local Christian Youth Group
Chevy Chase 12/7/18 | Disabilities Awareness Potluck Shabbat
Dallas 12/7/18 | Global Shabbat Around the World Program
Dallas 12/7/18 | Big-Little Sisterhood Shabbat
Dallas 12/8/18 Shining Light on Positivity Shabbat
Dallas 12/8/18 | Community Havdallah + Hanukkah Candle Lighting Event
Danbury 12/15/18 | Global Shabbat Services + Limmud @ Winter Convention
Danbury 12/15/18 | Global Shabbat Services + Limmud @ Winter Convention
Davie 12/7/18 | Community Shabbat Dinner + Services
Davie 12/7/18 | Zera Sisterhood Shabbat
Denver 12/7/18 | Shining Light on Mental Health with Pam Schuller
Durham 12/18/18 | Global Shabbat Havdallah East Valley 12/8/18 | Havdallah + Chapter Sleepover
Edmonton 12/7/18 | Remembrance Shabbat @ LTI Convention
Fairfax 12/8/18 | Empathy Havdallah
Fairfield 12/7/18 | Hanukkah Potluck + Anti-Semitism Discussion
Fort Myers 12/7/18 | Community Services + Hanukkah Dinner Cruise
Gaithersburg 12/7/18 | Father/Son Shabbat Dinner
Great Neck 11/30/18 | Let There Be Light in Our Future Shabbat Dinner
Harrisburg 12/7/18 | Let There Be Light Friday Night Services at New Member Weekend Havana 12/7/18 | Community Shabbat Program
Houston 12/8/18 | Shining Light on Anti-Semitism Havdallah
Izmir 12/7/18 | Let There Be Light Community Shabbat
Kansas City 12/8/18 | Interfaith Celebration of Light w/ the Interfaith Youth Alliance Lafayette Hill 11/30/18 | Women in Judaism
Shabbat Dinner + Sisterhood Program
Las Vegas 12/8/18 | Havdallah + Silent Disco Laurel 12/7/18 | Howard County Global Shabbat @ Oseh Shalom Synagogue
London 12/8/18 | Rainbow Havdallah + Finding the Light Program
Los Angeles 12/7/18 | Community Global Shabbat @ Sinai Temple
Los Gatos | 12/7/18 Shining Light on Homelessness in the Bay
Louisville 12/7/18 | Remembrance Shabbat @ Winter Convention
Mexico City 12/7/18 | Let There Be Light Shabbat Video Montage
Miami 12/8/18 | Havdallah at FIU Hillel Milwaukee 12/7/18 | Holocaust Survivor + Hanukkah Celebration
Minneapolis 12/7/18 | Community Shabbat Program
Mitzpe Ramon 12/8/18 | Global Shabbat Hanukkah Torch Relay
Montreal 12/10/18 | Shabbat Dinner in the Dark
Naples 12/7/18 | Global Shabbat Multi-Service Weekend
Nashville 12/1/18 | Shabbat Sha-bonfire
New Haven 12/7/18 | Global Shabbat Hanukkah @ Congregation B'nai Jacob
New Hope 12/15/18 | Let There Be Light Hanukkah Program
New London 12/8/18 | Festival of Lights Community Hanukkah Dinner + Program
Northbrook 11/30/18 | Global Shabbat: A Survivor's Story
Novi Sad 12/15/18 | Community Global Shabbat Program
Old Westbury 12/7/18 | Holocaust Remembrance + Survivor Shabbat
Omaha 12/4/18 | Festival of Lights Hanukkah Program
Oveido 12/7/18 | Interfaith Shabbat Dinner + Light Up Holiday Carnival @ UCF Hillel
Palm Beach Gardens 12/7/18 | Let There Be Light Friendship Shabbat
Parkland 12/8/18 | Brotherhood Inductions Havdallah
Parkland 12/7/18 | Glow White Shabbat + Hanukkah Celebration
Pittsburgh 11/3/18 | Interfaith Community Youth Havdallah
Plano 12/7/18 | Light in Our Lives Shabbat Dinner + Program
Portland 12/7/18 | Interfaith Shabbat w/ the Dharma Center and St. Luke's Lutheran Church
Potomac 12/7/18 | Shining Light on Jewish Sisterhood Potluck
Potomac 12/7/18 | Parent/Teen Hanukkah Shabbat Service
Queens 12/8/18 | Shine Bright Havdallah Queens 12/8/18 | Sisterhood/Brotherhood Havdallah @ Bellerose Jewish Center
Queens 12/8/18 | Sharing the Light Shabbat Service @ Hollis Hills Bayside Jewish Center
Queens 12/7/18 | Exodus Global Shabbat Dinner
Raleigh 12/7/18 | Kabbalat Shabbat @ Temple Beth Or
Richmond 12/8/18 | Global Jewry Havdallah @ the Holocaust Museum
Richmond Hill 12/7/18 | Shining Light on Anti-Semitism + A Survivor's Story
Riga 12/7/18 | Perception of Jewish Community Shabbat
Rockville 12/17/18 | Shining Light on Childhood Cancer Program
Rockville 12/7/18 | Homelessness Discussion Shabbat with A Wider Circle
Rockville 12/7/18 | Mother/Daughter Hanukkah Shabbat
Rockville 12/7/18 | Friends of the IDF Shabbat Dinner
Rockville 12/8/18 | Shining Light on the IDF Experience Shabbat
Savannah 12/7/18 | Global Sha-hanukkah
Scottsdale 12/7/18 | Interfaith Shabbat Dinner + Panel Discussion
Seattle 12/7/18 | Interfaith Shabbat Workshop w/ Kids4Peace
Skopje 12/14/18 | Community Shabbat with Jewish Official of the US Embassy
Sofia 12/7/18 | AZA Brotherhood Shabbat Sofia 12/7/18 | BBG Sisterhood Shabbat Southbury 12/7/18 | Stronger Than Hate Shabbat @ B'nai Israel
Springfield 12/8/18 | Hanukkah Havdallah + Potluck Dinner
St. Augustine 12/8/18 | Night of Lights Havdallah + Dessert Scavenger Hunt Stamford 12/7/18 | Let Light Into Shabbat Candle-Making Program + Services
Tampa 12/8/18 | Let There Be Light Community Havdallah
Toronto 12/7/18 | Dessert Potluck + Community Simcha Baskets Program Toronto 12/7/18 | Shining Light on Racist Extremism w/ Former neo-Nazi Elizabeth Moore
Tucson 12/7/18 | Global Shabbat + Hanukkah Celebration @ Temple Emanuel
Vancouver 12/7/18 | Hanukkah Challah Bake Shabbat
Vaughan 12/7/18 | Brotherhood Shabbat + Dreidel Showdown
Vaughan 12/7/18 | Jewish Identity-Building Shabbat + Discussion
Vaughan 12/7/18 | BYO-Chanukiah Shabbat + Finance Management Crash Course
Vaughan 12/7/18 | Sharing the Light of Good Sisterhood Shabbat
Vaughan 12/7/18 | Shining Light on Poverty and Homelessness Shabbat
Vienna 12/7/18 | Kabbalat Shabbat at the Great Synagogue of Vienna
Virginia Beach 12/8/18 | Interfaith Bring-a-friend Hanukkah Shabbat
Vrnjačka Banja 12/7/18 | Global Shabbat @ BBYO Balkans Limmud
West Bloomfield 12/7/18 | Jewish Immigrant Families Storytelling Shabbat
Westchester 12/1/18 | Hanukkah Party + Havdallah @ Beth Israel Synagogue
West Hartford 12/8/18 | Community-wide Hanukkah Service Party
Weston 12/8/18 | Brotherhood Shabbat Dinner + Services
Weston 12/7/18 | BBG Perseverance Shabbat
Wilkes Barre 11/30/18 | Shabbat Sleepover + Hebrew School Volunteering
Wilmington 1/11/19 | Community Shabbat Program
Winnipeg 1/12/19 | Coffee House Event Focusing on Combatting Anti-Semitism Winston-Salem 12/7/18 | Camp Shabbat Service + Program
Woodbridge 12/1/18 | Havdallah in the Park + Light Bright Skating
Zurich 12/7/18 | Kabbalat Shabbat @ Community Shabbaton
Making meaningful moments for Global Shabbat will require some planning. Take a look through the questions and resources listed below to spark ideas and ensure you didn't forget anything.
If you're new to Global Shabbat, be sure to read over this Global Shabbat one-pager, which will provide context about the purpose of the initiative and what events have looked like in the past.
If you still have questions after reading through the steps, that's totally cool. Feel free to contact your International Sh'lichim for planning support. Don't worry, we've got your back.
Before you dive into the planning process, be sure to learn what's important to the success of your event. Review the goals and parameters of the initiative you're working toward, and understand key opportunities for innovation to elevate your experience from good to WOW.
Understand Event Goals, Parameters, and Opportunities
What is the purpose of this initiative?
How can you maximize creativity and innovation in working toward stated goals?
How can this effort be layered into your programming calendar to enhance your funnels?
Review Objectives and Define Success
What does success look like for this experience (including metrics tied to program engagement, quality, innovation/risk, etc.)?
How will achieve that success?
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Once you clearly understand the task at hand, IDEATE together with teen and staff leadership to build a unique experience that will best serve your community's needs within the context of the initiative. Do a community mapping exercise, clarify key responsibilities, and establish ambitious (and attainable!) goals.
Map Your Assets
What are the unique opportunities (and challenges) afforded by your community - including people, places, experiences, etc. - and how can you take full advantage of them to elevate your event?
Define Leadership Roles
What responsibilities are key to the success of this experience, and how will you divide the work (among specific teens and staff) to define expectations and share the load, while also leveraging individual skills?
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Set SMART Goals
What specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals will enable you achieve your stated objectives to maximize success?
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With a clear vision to guide you, take time to STRATEGIZE everything you'll need to enable success. Solidify basic logistics, design your program budget, seek out partnerships, outline a clear marketing strategy and swag, designs, all while further elevating your program plan to produce a truly 'high res' experience.
Confirm the Basics
What are the key Who, What, When, Where and Why components of your event?
What program plan will you use to drive progress toward your desired outcomes?
Elevate Your Outline
How will you push your event concept beyond the status quo to build an experience that is as inclusive as possible and that will defy all expectations?
Create a Budget
How can you get creative to maximize your experience while minimizing dollars required?
Where might you apply for additional funding to go above and beyond for your program?
Identify and Engage Target Partners
Considering the nature of your event, what local/national organizations can you engage as community, program, and/or brand partners?
How can you leverage parents, alumni, and other stakeholders to help?
Develop an Action Plan
What steps are required to turn your program idea into a reality?
What tasks and support are needed to make that happen, and along what timeline?
Define Your Marketing and Social Media Strategies
How will you leverage your network using all available communication channels to promote your event far and wide?
Who will own each touchpoint, and along what timeline?
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Determine Pre/During/Post Swag Offerings
What relevant, sophisticated, and desirable swag will you offer before/during/after your event to surprise and delight your guests?
Where are there opportunities to bulk order items to keep costs low?
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Good things come to those who HUSTLE. Use branded templates and an all-in approach to promote your event early and often. Create smart online systems to stramline registration. Dig deeper to recruit more teens across all social circles, and make sure the press (and the Order!) hear about what you have planned.
Prep Marketing Materials
How can you leverage (and customize) available promotional items to build major buzz about your event through a variety of digital, print, and live sharing platforms?
Launch Online Registration
How will you use BBYO's online registration portal to promote your event and encourage pre-registration for planning purposes?
What other fun information could you collect to inform surprise-and-delight opportunities?
Deploy Your Marketing and Social Media Plan
How can you activate your recruitment plan in a way that builds real FOMO among your target audience, and what exciting incentives can you offer to encourage hustling toward pre-registration?
Engage the Press
How can you pitch the community impact of your event (to elevate BBYO's brand) in a way that will attract local/national media to take note and either attend or cover the experience?
Celebrate Internally
What information can you share about your event to help BBYO build a strong global narrative touting the reach and impact of our Movement's most influential programs?
As you gear up for the big day, get ready to EXECUTE. Send out final reminders, walk through the event with your steering committee, prep supplies and swag for distribution, and BBYO-ify your venue. Steward prospects (and members) with intention, and surprise and delight your guests to leave a lasting impression.
Confirm Final Logistics
What unanswered questions remain, and how will you address them?
How can you use final pre-event reminders and confirmation messages to enhance overall buzz throughout your network?
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Prepare the Leadership Team
What program moments should be scripted in advance (versus free form), and how should leadership team members plan to handle any issues as they arise?
Transform Your Space
How can you use branding and signage, as well as lighting, A/V, risers or other fun seating options, reserved VIP areas, and other venue elements to bring your space to life and enhance its fullness?
Steward Guests from Start to Finish
What expectations can you set and systems can you put in place to easily identify prospects (and under-active members) to ensure that all new attendees are well taken care of from the time they arrive to when they leave?
Leave a Lasting Impression
What fun surprises, snacks, and/or other program enhancements can you offer to ensure all attendees leave eager for more BBYO?
How will you share upcoming event information so everyone knows what's next?
Take advantage of the shared energy and momentum from your event while it's fresh to make sure attendees keep coming back for more. Coordinate an individualized follow-up plan to gather input to inform future programs, say a heartfelt thanks to all involved, and close out the MRIHA model by making the Ask!
Collect Feedback
How can you use technology and/or individualized outreach to gather input from prospects and other attendees to help improve your community's WOW programs in the future?
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Say Thank You
How can you customize available branded templates to personalize your follow-up outreach to all key guest segments (prospects, members, parents, partners, stakeholders, etc.)?
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Make the Ask
How can you coordinate targeted 'Ask' outreach to invite all prospect attendees to join BBYO in a timely and effective manner?
Pre-Event Marketing
You know an event is going to be successful when you see it everywhere. Utilize these tools and templates to get the word out about your event.
Blast this image on all of your social media channels and be sure your friends share it on their personal accounts. Add your event information in the caption of the image.
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Let your friends know you'll be at Global Shabbat with this awesome profile picture frame.
Update Yours
Share the details about your event with this customizable flyer template. This flyer includes a space to upload a headshot for a special guest. Hang these flyers at all of your local hang out spots.
Size: 8.5'x11''
Share the details about your event with this customizable flyer template. Hang these flyers at all of your local hang out spots.
Size: 8.5'x11''
Hang the official Global Shabbat poster all over your city to create buzz and excitement. This poster is also available in a customizable version to add your basic event details.
Size: 11''x17'' or 24''x36''
Utilize this letterhead when making formal asks to community partners or guests to join your event. If you're an overachiever, you can put all of your official Global Shabbat program outlines in this document.
Customize them, cut them up, and hand them out to all of your friends at school, practice, clubs, and more to make sure everyone knows they're invited to your Global Shabbat.
Make your Facebook event and personal social media profile look sharp with this event cover photo.
When sending your targeting email blasts to your friends, parents, prospects, and community members pop-in these headers and footers.
Everyone loves getting something in the mail that feels personal. Reach out to your community with this customizable postcard.
Event Environment Enhancements
Go all out to make your Global Shabbat space feel special and memorable. Be sure to order these items at least two weeks before your event to avoid any rush fees.
Place this board outside of your event entrance so everyone knows they're in the right place.
Suggested vendor: Vistaprint
Instructions: Order from Vistaprint (or any local print shop) a 22”x28” full-color
foam core board.
Ballpark price: $40
Place this banner at the heart of your event. Be sure it's visible for any special photo moments.
Suggested vendor: Echod Graphics
Instructions: Select vinyl banners > 13 oz. vinyl banner > 4’Hx8’W. Depending on your space add grommets or pockets for hanging. Grommets are recommended every two feet and work with command hooks. Pockets are great if you already have a banner stand. Upload artwork after you order and be sure to get a proof.
Ballpark price: $50
Order a step and repeat to make everyone feel like a VIP. Bring additional props and throw a red carpet in front of the step and repeat to really go big.
Suggested vendor: Echod Graphics
Instructions: Select vinyl banners > 13 oz. vinyl banner > 8’Hx10’W or 8'Hx8'W > 0 grommets, Pockets on top and bottom only (no hems). Upload artwork after you order and be sure to get a proof. Buy a stand for your step and repeat here.
Ballpark price: $100
Plaster every wall of your event with this poster. If a step and repeat is not in your budget, print out a few dozen of these posters to make a photo wall.
Order from Vistaprint (or similar
printing company) a 11’’x17” full-color print
on card stock paper or print at local office.
Ballpark price: $1/print
Suggested vendor: Echod Graphics
Instructions: Order from Echod Graphics (or any local print shop) a 22”x24” full-color
foam core board.
Ballpark price: $40
Suggested vendor: Echod Graphics
Instructions: Order from Echod Graphics (or any local print shop) a 22”x24” full-color
foam core board.
Ballpark price: $40
We recommend that your event sign-in be online through a form, but we know things happen. Maybe your venue doesn't have WiFi or the sign-in link isn't working. Whatever the case may be, print out a few dozen copies of this sign-in form to ensure you capture the information of everyone at your event.
Build a beautiful program book to place on all of your guests seats featuring an evening schedule, special honors, and more.
Size: 8.5''x11''
Suggested Vendor: Totally Promotional
Instructions: Select one of the 'best sellers' and find a size that works for your budget. Upload the AZA and BBG seal or BBYO logo for the front.
Ballpark price: $30/item
Bring this year’s theme, Let There Be Light, to life by decorating your event space with this collection of notable quotes from some of history’s greatest gamechangers.
Build Your Shabbat Box
Be sure you have all of the supplies you need to run a Shabbat. Many of these general Judaic pieces can be borrowed from family members or synagogues if you ask, but feel free to order a set for your chapter too! Be sure to order these items at least two weeks before your event to avoid any rush fees.
Suggested vendor: Rush Order Tees
Instructions: Upload artwork and order a 14'x14' bandana. Try ordering an assortment of colors to enhance your space.
Ballpark price: $3/item
Suggested vendor: Skullcap Co.
Instructions: Add the AZA or BBYO seals or BBYO logo to some custom made kippot for the big weekend. Minimum order of 60. These take 2-4 weeks to produce.
Ballpark price: $2.50/item
DownloadProgram Resources
Learn the basics of Global Shabbat and how you can start planning an event to 'WOW' your community.
Global Shabbat makes us feel like a Movement because it's happening in hundreds of cities around the world. Use this script to open and close your events, so participants feel a part of something bigger.
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Place this booklet on your Shabbat dinner tables to guests can follow along with the beautiful prayers of Shabbat.
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Use this Havdallah Card so everyone can participate in the prayers! Havdallah is best when you can hear everyone's voice.
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Part of what makes Global Shabbat so special is the amazing guests brought in to enhance the evening. Learn how to invite a gamechanger guest to your event.
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We encourage chapters and communities to bring the theme of Global Shabbat to life by sharing experiences with interfaith, cross-cultural, and/or vulnerable populations in the community. Get some ideas for how to bridge communities together.
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If you are inducting any gamechangers (special guests) into AZA or BBG at your Global Shabbat experience, print out an official certificate to give them during or after the ceremony.
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Get program ideas for how to bring to life this year's Global Shabbat theme: Let There Be Light.
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This guide is intended to serve as a resource to enrich Shabbat experiences with additional Jewish content and ideas.
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This guide will provide a moving Global Shabbat service experience that creates a time and space for safe and productive dialogue with teens from other religious backgrounds.
DownloadPost-Event Follow-Up
Thank the people who made your event happen and invite everyone to come back for your next community event!
Don't forget to thank all of the people, partners and planners who helped make your event possible. A handwritten note means the world.
Instructions: Order from FedEx (or similar
printing company) a 7’’x10” full-color print
on card stock paper.
Ballpark price: $2/print
Hand these out at the end of your event to invite your friends to the next big thing (hint: Spring Kickoff or Winter Convention). These are customizable for you to share information about your next event.
Instructions: Order from Vistaprint (or similar
printing company) a 3.5"x2" full-color business card.
Ballpark price: $10 for set
Want to share the news about your local or regional Global Shabbat event? Edit this customizable press release template to showcase your program and send out to local media contacts ASAP. Share the success of your Global Shabbat experience and make sure to tag @bbyoinsider on social, too, so we can help spread the word!
Share all of your Kickoff posts with the hashtag #BBYOKickoff to showcase all of the incredible events happening around the world. Maybe if you're lucky you'll get a shout out from @BBYOInsider.
