Rabbi Peter Hyman of BSA featured in The Star Democrat

Rabbi Peter Hyman, the national Jewish chaplain for the Boy Scouts of America since 1981, recently travelled with the Boy Scouts of America's contingent to the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in Kirara-hama, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Honshu island in Japan.

“If all you do is take home memories and tuck them away in your files and don’t act on the opportunity for building relationships, which in real ways can contribute to strengthening and making the world better, then it is a wasted experience,” Hyman said.

Read the full article here.

Earlier this year, the Rabbi was the keynote speaker at the World Scout Bureau Management Team Meeting, where he touched on the changes that are impacting Scouting today, the challenges that are before the Scout Movement, and how each one of the Scout leaders should proactively respond and address the demands of a changing world. Read here for excerpts of his address.