Ruth Schapira
“Lesson-Plan” Your Passover Seder: Ways to Involve Teens
Lesson Plan your Seder! The Passover Seder is considered by many to be the consummate family education event. This inter-generational...
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Ruth Schapira
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What many Jewish adults regret—do you?
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:...
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Parents: Are you sure that your teen will ‘do’ Jewish in college?
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...
Ruth Schapira
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Five Reasons Not to Substitute Convenience for Expertise with #Jteens
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...
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One odd recommendation to help #Jteens reduce the academic pressure they feel
Enlightened teen education What I’m about to write is counter-intuitive, fair warning given. The phenomenon I’m about to describe has...
Ruth Schapira
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“What if I don’t believe in God—am I still Jewish?”
what are we teaching teens about belief? A confident, tall, yet boyish 11th grade teenager asked this question of Rabbis who were...
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What 7 of today’s top headlines tell you about teens today
Where’s the good news? When it comes to teens, it seems that “Headlines” are usually “Dead Lines”….yes….news about deaths, teenage thugs,...
Ruth Schapira
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“There Is Only One Way to Change the World, and That Is By Education” Rabbi Dr. Jonath
What would you say about how to change the world? Why does Judaism value education so much? How are educational values embedded in our...
Ruth Schapira
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You won’t believe these words trending for #teens
Guess what’s trending for #teens? I discovered a helpful tool for twitter, a free site called hashtagify.me that lets you search trending...
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One comment I never hear as a Jewish educator
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...
Ruth Schapira
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Jewish Parents Who “Get It” and Why: Generational Gifting of a Jewish Education
Why do some parents understand that continuing their teen’s Jewish education after Bar/Bat Mitzvah is essential, while others don’t make...
Ruth Schapira
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“You’re Not Invited”: Teen Victims of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Years and What To Do Abo
Party time (for some) We know that many Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebrations have gotten way out of hand. Thousands have seen Rabbi Wolpe’s...
Ruth Schapira
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Why Should Our Teens be Jewish?
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...
Ruth Schapira
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Seven Things to Do When Teens Come Home from Jewish Summer Camp
How to Bring Camp Home Soon, thousands of Jewish teens will arrive to their home communities, having spent an amazing immersive...
Ruth Schapira
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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...
Ruth Schapira
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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...
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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...
Ruth Schapira
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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...
Ruth Schapira
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Teens: Watch Your Social Media Presence
twitter logo map 09 (Photo credit: The Next Web) “Treat every conversation you have on Twitter or Facebook as if it were a nationally...
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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...
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