Local Scout Presented With Boy Scout Jewish Religious Emblem

Pictured: In observance of the 12^th point of the Scout Law, East Northport resident Life Scout Ian Loring of Troop 8 (East Northport) was presented with the Ner Tamid Emblem on June 13 at the Troop 8 Spring Court of Honor. It was also presented at his Bar Mitzvah on June 17^th at the East Northport Jewish Center.  Scout Loring was presented with a medal, certificate, and the special purple and silver “scouting religious emblem knot” that is sewn onto his uniform.  Left to right: Troop 8 (East Northport) Scoutmaster David Puttre, Jewish Committee on Scouting of Suffolk County Council (Scotus BSA) representative Phyllis Stein, Ner Tamid recipient/Life Scout Ian Loring, and his parents  Eric and Joanne Loring.

The first eleven points of the Boy Scout Law must be demonstrated in order to go from one rank to the next, including Eagle.  The 12th point –“A Scout is Reverent”– can be demonstrated in a variety of ways including the earning of the religious award of the Scout’s individual faith.

As with all the religious emblems, the Ner Tamid Award, earned by Jewish Boy Scouts, is not an award for Scouting skills but rather an emblem authorized by the Boy Scouts of America to be worn on the Scout’s uniform after satisfactory completion of the necessary requirements.  This award, earned by Jewish Boy Scouts 11 to 18, requires study concerned with home observance, synagogue worship, Jewish study, the American Jewish community, world Jewry, and a service project.

In observance of the 12th point of the Scout Law, East Northport resident Life Scout Ian Loring of Troop 8 (East Northport) was presented with the Ner Tamid Emblem on June 13 at the Troop 8 Spring Court of Honor. It was also presented at his Bar Mitzvah on June 17th at the East Northport Jewish Center by JCOS PR Chair Phyllis Stein.  Scout Loring was presented with a medal, certificate, and the special purple and silver “scouting religious emblem knot” that is sewn onto his uniform.

Boy Scout Ian Loring is the son of Joanne and Eric Loring of East Northport, younger brother of Esther Loring, and grandson of Rose-Ellen Ellingwood and Charles Loring of Bangor, Maine, and Fran and Harvey Fixman of Woodbury, NY.