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Fundraising by Mike Leven, other donors, will enable 44 public school teens to experience life-changing trip to Israel this summer. (Courtesy of NCSY) Four years ago, Mike Leven of Boca Raton had never heard of NCSY or its Israel summer program, the Anne Samson Jerusalem Journey (TJJ). A few weeks ago, the Palm Beach County philanthropist hosted a fundraising event at his home, where he culminated a $150,000 campaign to send a busload of 44 South Florida Jewish public school teens to Israel this summer. “I was inspired when I learned that NCSY runs over 300 Jewish Student Union (JSU) clubs for Jewish teens in North American public schools,” said Leven. “Many public school students have never attended Jewish summer camps or gone to Israel and I want to enable as many Southern Florida teens to go on TJJ as possible.” JSUs are NCSY’s Jewish culture clubs in public schools across the United States.