Lesson Plan your Seder! The Passover Seder is considered by many to be the consummate family education event. This inter-generational...

Do you want a ‘do-over’? On a weekly basis, I interact with members of a cohort that have been recently featured in a rash of reports:...

Hillel has built some stunning buildings. Will your teen walk in the door? What is the college campus like today? How does it differ from...

Ever have bad sushi? Don’t compromise with sushi or Jewish education A Hat Tip to Seth Godin, marketing guru, for this post’s idea–my...

Enlightened teen education What I’m about to write is counter-intuitive, fair warning given. The phenomenon I’m about to describe has...

what are we teaching teens about belief? A confident, tall, yet boyish 11th grade teenager asked this question of Rabbis who were...

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

What would you say about how to change the world? Why does Judaism value education so much? How are educational values embedded in our...

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

There’s data, and then there’s what I know I’m lucky. I regularly interact with a cohort of individuals that others write reports about...

Why do some parents understand that continuing their teen’s Jewish education after Bar/Bat Mitzvah is essential, while others don’t make...

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

Being Jewish? Too easy! The image above came up in a Google Image advanced search (free to use or share) for “Why be Jewish?”. The image...

How to Bring Camp Home Soon, thousands of Jewish teens will arrive to their home communities, having spent an amazing immersive...

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...

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

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

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

twitter logo map 09 (Photo credit: The Next Web) “Treat every conversation you have on Twitter or Facebook as if it were a nationally...

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