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Dating or Not Dating Jewish: How Israelis Answered

Ruth Schapira

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Dating or Not Dating Jewish: How Israelis Answered

I happened on this tweet tonight from the Jewish Forward:Would you date non-Jews? The tweet was that simple, with a link to a video...

Patchwork Fixes Don’t Work for Roads or the Jewish Community

Ruth Schapira

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Patchwork Fixes Don’t Work for Roads or the Jewish Community

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...

Ruth Schapira

3 min read

How We Are Shortchanging Jewish Teens

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...

How to Make Jewish School Cool for Jewish Teens

Ruth Schapira

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How to Make Jewish School Cool for Jewish Teens

Judaism: Where’s the cool? Over 70 seniors recently graduated from a supplementary Jewish community high school. Why was attending cool...

Jewish Teens Should Know: Artists Get Flack for Performing in Israel

Ruth Schapira

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Jewish Teens Should Know: Artists Get Flack for Performing in Israel

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

18-year-old Invented a Way to Charge Your Phone in 30 Seconds

Ruth Schapira

1 min read

18-year-old Invented a Way to Charge Your Phone in 30 Seconds

See on Scoop.it – Judaism, Jewish Teens, and Today’s World When I was in high school… See on www.good.is

Jewish Teens: Thinking About Religious Truths and Scientific Lies

Ruth Schapira

2 min read

Jewish Teens: Thinking About Religious Truths and Scientific Lies

Science and Religion: Not a good fit Among students I’ve worked with, the majority are really not comfortable talking about Religion, at...

Ruth Schapira

2 min read

Teens: Cheating on Standardized Tests?

No digital devices in sight The Los Angeles Times reported that California is coping, almost feverishly it seems, with new measures that...

Jewish Teen: A view of rights, responsibilities, and radicalization

Ruth Schapira

2 min read

Jewish Teen: A view of rights, responsibilities, and radicalization

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

Betrayal, Abandonment, and Jewish Teen Education

Ruth Schapira

3 min read

Betrayal, Abandonment, and Jewish Teen Education

This past Sunday I met with a group of parents interested in checking out options for their teens’ Jewish education. They were committed...

Ruth Schapira

3 min read

Parent Conversations With Teens

We need to tune in to teens Life is busy, so how do we get the time to interact with teen-aged kids when everybody is literally on the...

Ruth Schapira

2 min read

“But I’ve already been to the museum!”

Negotiating with teens when they say “been there, done that!” The entire school was taking a trip to the relatively new National Museum...

Doing a 360 on Attendance in a Part-Time School

Ruth Schapira

3 min read

Doing a 360 on Attendance in a Part-Time School

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

Catching Catfish: Real and Unreal Life for Jewish Teens

Ruth Schapira

1 min read

Catching Catfish: Real and Unreal Life for Jewish Teens

Just when you think you can keep pace with the bizarre events of the everyday, you find yourself having a discussion with Jewish teens...

Ruth Schapira

1 min read

Uphill Marketing to Jewish Teens

Maybe a megaphone would work? I am an advocate for Jewish teens, and believe that all teens benefit from a Jewish education past the...

“After my Bar Mitzvah, my Dad decided to convert. Will he be a real Jew then?”

Ruth Schapira

3 min read

“After my Bar Mitzvah, my Dad decided to convert. Will he be a real Jew then?”

Some labels might be useful. Others, not so much. I wasn’t prepared for such a troubling question by this earnest 8th grader in my class....

Writings About Jewish Teens: Annual Review

Ruth Schapira

2 min read

Writings About Jewish Teens: Annual Review

The WordPress.com team sends me a summary e-mail at the end of the year (complete with fireworks!) that help me learn about what you find...

Israeli teens use cell phones in class: What we can learn

Ruth Schapira

2 min read

Israeli teens use cell phones in class: What we can learn

Cell phones: not an opt-out tool for most teeens According to a recent University of Haifa poll, over 94% of Israeli High School students...

A Q & A : with a Jewish teen’s cell phone

Ruth Schapira

2 min read

A Q & A : with a Jewish teen’s cell phone

There’s an app for that? I recently followed a WordPress blog that offers a daily dollop of inspiration to bloggers. What a gift, right?...

Ruth Schapira

2 min read

Jewish Culture: Enough For Our Teens?

What Will Keep Jews marrying Jews? At a recent holiday party, I had been speaking with a Pastor of the Calvary Full Gospel Church. He...

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