Of course there's meaning in the ceremony, but often the goal of sustained impact is not as easy as you might think. Teens are exposed...

What Should I Write About? Writing Your College Essay Is Never Easy! The time to begin your essay has never been more perfect.  Your...

Dorm stuff? Check. Water? Check. Values? For those teens who have hopefully garnered enough college acceptance letters to make some...

How ethical are today’s teens? When given the chance to cheat, what would the teenagers you know do? A recent New York Times article on...

All Teens Welcome What might other faith communities teach us, as Jewish educators, about engaging large numbers of teens in religious...

Thank you for visiting Jewish Teens this year and reading my blog! Below are interesting stats from the 2014 annual report prepared by...

Take five, relax, let yourself think about who you want to be….. Before you read further, you need to know this. I am not a college...

See on Scoop.it – Judaism, Jewish Teens, and Today’s World This is for teachers in supplementary schools, particularly those who work...

Where’s the good news? When it comes to teens, it seems that “Headlines” are usually “Dead Lines”….yes….news about deaths, teenage thugs,...

Guess what’s trending for #teens? I discovered a helpful tool for twitter, a free site called hashtagify.me that lets you search trending...

Party time (for some) We know that many Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebrations have gotten way out of hand. Thousands have seen Rabbi Wolpe’s...

The Pot-Hole Problem We’re already past pot-hole fixing season, so I can reflect on it with some degree of dispassion. Disclaimer: I know...

Teens need to be with other teens. Lots of them. Some time ago, I wrote a post called What I learned about marketing from working at a...

Alicia Keys is getting pressure to cancel her performance in Tel-Aviv Israel. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters announced this past March that he...

The Ten Commandments, In SVG (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A while back, I was listening to a televised lecture by Joseph Telushkin on Shalom...

Class Clowns: Not That Funny Recently, I participated in a webinar, sponsored by JESNA, on issues related to complementary...

OMG (Photo credit: mac.lachlan) In our terribly connected world, we’re never really far from seeing devastation up close.  Like unwilling...

I just read a quick blog about how elementary school parents should prepare for Parent-Teacher conferences. For parents of teenagers:...

Make sure the activity gives back! Soccer teams. Dance classes. School activities. SAT prep classes. After-school jobs. Volunteer work....

When did things get so serious for middle-schoolers? A new Gallup poll studied factors related to student engagement, optimism, and...