How can I help my shy teenage daughter meet other Jewish kids, including boys?
Bintel says you’re asking the wrong questions. It’s not about Jews, and it’s not about boys.
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News Camps cancel summer trips to Israel because of war, low enrollment
For many American families, wartime is the wrong time for a teen trip, but others want to show support for Israel
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Asaf Saban’s film is an uneven look at Israeli high schoolers and the Holocaust
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Opinion The teenage trauma of being forced to work on Rosh Hashanah — at a shul
Being a ticket-taker at a popular theater was a fun way to spend a summer. But then the High Holidays came. And the manager asked me to rip tickets, not caring that I was Jewish
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News ‘What was I doing when I was their age?’ Six Jewish teens, out to change the world
This year’s 15 Diller Tikkun Olam awardees are moving the dial on issues like the refugee crisis, climate change and LGBTQ+ inclusion
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Opinion Engaging Jewish Teenagers Isn’t Hopeless — If We Do It Right
(JTA) — Welcoming teens into Jewish life is both one of the most important and seemingly challenging endeavors of the Jewish community. The rapid decline in teen engagement in Jewish life post-b’nai mitzvah is well-documented and depressing. It’s also an entirely reversible trend, but only if the Jewish community approaches teen engagement in a new way…
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Culture What’s in an Old Dictionary? Plenty of Anti-Semitism.
When I was in my sophomore year of high school, I spent many of my lunch hours eating alone. I would sit on a knee-high bench in the locker room, in one of the music wing’s boxy practice rooms or at a table in the expansive domed cafeteria we called the Great Hall. Afterward I…
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Culture Watch Frum March To Protest Sabbath-Violating Teens in Lakewood
Lakewood, New Jersey, is a bustling Haredi town organized around its grand yeshiva and dominated by strict rabbinic authority. So when a few rebellious teenagers took to hanging out by the lake on Sabbath afternoons — violating Sabbath rules by smoking and using their cellphones — the yeshiva’s head rabbis gathered dozens of men to march…
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