Ruth Schapira
Jewish Parents: How to choose your teen’s summer activities
what is the ideal summer experience for your teenager? Jewish summer camp. Arts classes. Internships. Specialty Sports Camps. College...
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Jewish Parents: Choose your teen’s activities wisely
Make sure the activity gives back! Soccer teams. Dance classes. School activities. SAT prep classes. After-school jobs. Volunteer work....
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One minute, three reasons why Jewish education helps teens focus on what’s important
One minute. Three reasons. Why just three reasons? Simple. Your time is valuable. Plus everyone’s way too busy getting ready for the...
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Learn these four leadership skills at a Hebrew High
Ronald A. Heifetz: “Leadership in times of crisis” How can you make this connection for #Jteens? A blog I read in the Harvard Business...
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Let’s hope Jewish parents are smarter than this
Are we just being stupid or stubborn? There are some obvious signs that parents might not be as smart as we’d like them to be. Do you...
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A Short List of What the Jewish Community Should Do for Teens
Check out the really short list In what seems a long time ago, I wrote a post about the Jewish community’s ‘in-the-box-thinking.’ As a...
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For Teens: Worrying About Being Normal? Don’t.
What’s the new normal anyway? I recently read a great post called Approaching Normal. It got me thinking about how teens today think...
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What is the real job we’re doing for Jewish Teens?
Milkshakes taste good. Jewish education is good. But what job are we really doing for Jewish Teens? I read an article about marketing...
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Current Events: did your teenager’s eyes just glaze over?
Mention “Current Events” to a group of teens and just watch what happens. Their eyes seem to glaze over. As if talking about...
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Talking Tech With Jewish Teens
By now, I think most educators have figured out that technology is not something that can be isolated from educational endeavors, but...
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Teens: Got a bad grade? Work it!
Image via Wikipedia Getting a bad grade, especially when you expected something else entirely, pretty much stinks. It’s hard enough being...
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Chanukah Ornaments? How some Jewish teens voted
A friend of mine who works for a collectibles company sent me an e-mail last week with a curious query. The company is considering...
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Five Things Jewish Parents Should Know
Imagine that you’re on a boat in the middle of the ocean in a thunderous storm. Waves are coming fast and furiously. Water is...
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Why Do We Hate Teenagers?
Image via Wikipedia Did this headline grab you? You’re not unique. It’s what seems to work for newspapers and television. This is what I...
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What today’s Jewish teens are ‘okay’ with
My weekly experience working with a class of 8th graders serves as a counterpoint to the doom and gloom I’ve read about lately in studies...
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The 500 word college essay
My blog posts rarely ever make the ideal 250 word count mark. I read somewhere that the perfect blog contains just that amount for...
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When Parents Say: “Jewish Education On The Side, Please”
Image via Wikipedia Some parents are guilty of treating Jewish education like a side dish, something that will never star as the main...
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Ethical Issue: When Teens Cheat
What are the obligations of a Jewish supplementary high school in raising the ethical level of its students? How do we hold our students...
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When Teens Say “I’m not that Jewish”
Image by Alex E. Proimos via Flickr I met with several teens yesterday, and when I asked them to tell me about their Jewish identity,...
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Non-Day School Jewish Teens: Orphans in the Field?
photo courtesy of ePublicist Almost every day I experience a huge disconnect between my reality and the world of foundations and...
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