How teens of all backgrounds can connect in a deeply polarized, post-Oct. 7 world
A community of young writers shows how we can bridge cultural and political divides
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News ‘We don’t have another country’: Two teenage protest leaders question Israel’s future
For young Israelis who oppose the judicial overhaul, the protests feel personal — it's their future at stake
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Culture ‘She felt so real to me’: Four young actors on how playing Anne Frank changed their lives
In Minnesota, Washington, Massachusetts and North Carolina, one story continues to exert a pull over the people who tell it
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Culture How a Jewish folk song made it into a chart-topping rap banger
16-year-old producer Aviad Poznansky learned 'Yoel's Niggun' at Jewish summer camp. Now, it's part of rapper JID's newest hit, 'Dance Now.'
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News Jewish Queer Youth is growing. For closeted Orthodox and Sephardic teens, that ‘means the world’
The organization will soon open centers in Chicago, Baltimore, Florida, Teaneck and Monsey.
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Yiddish World Online tour: Pre-war Jewish Vilna as seen through eyes of a teen girl
On Wednesday, December 8, at 1 pm ET, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will lead a Zoom tour of its exhibit depicting pre-war Vilna as seen through the eyes of a Jewish teenage girl. The exhibit, called “Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl”, is based on an autobiography that Beba Epstein,…
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Yiddish World Being pro-Israel is taboo among my fellow students on Instagram
Teenagers today, like many adults, seem to have become obsessed with Israel and Israeli politics. Last May, when a ceasefire was called after 11 days of fighting in Israel, my fellow students at Columbia Secondary School in Manhattan, who had never posted anything about Israel on Instagram, were suddenly spokespeople for the “anti-Israel movement.” As…
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Culture Are more teens getting nose jobs — and is TikTok to blame?
Surgery transformation videos are a genre unto themselves on TikTok. Nearly always set to a mashup called “Celebrate the Good Times,” the videos count down to the big day, switching frames every few beats as the numbers tick away until the big reveal when the beat drops. Dance music crescendos and the creator, usually a…
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