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Jewish Parents: Four Things I Wish You Wouldn’t Say to Your Teenager
Making decisions about continuing Jewish Education is often a challenge, though I’m not sure why. The comments below are ones I’ve heard...

Ruth Schapira
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Jewish Teen Engagement: Don’t ask me for a tissue
Why is the Jewish community crying? I’ve worked with teens in the Jewish Let’s pretend you’re one of them. Your bar/bat mitzvah was...

Ruth Schapira
3 min read


Jewish Programs that Miss the Mark
Last month a new blog from the Mandel Center for Jewish studies at Brandeis University said that ” Some of the most talented,...

Ruth Schapira
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A Soup of Guilt
I am nagged by the question I posed in an earlier post when I wondered why many Jewish Teens keep their Jewish involvements a ‘secret’...

Ruth Schapira
1 min read


What Jewish teens want us to know
Image via Wikipedia A panel of teens expressed their opinions in a workshop at a Jewish educator’s conference in Philadelphia called...

Ruth Schapira
1 min read
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