If your child is returning home from overnight camp, expect that your laundry room will be filled with the dirtiest, grimiest piles of...

Ethical clarity? Clueless The year is newly born, yet through the lens of ethics things feel quite stale. The clarity that should come...

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

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

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

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....

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...

What’s the new normal anyway? I recently read a great post called Approaching Normal.  It got me thinking about how teens today think...

Mention “Current Events” to a group of teens and just watch what happens.  Their eyes seem to glaze over. As if talking about...

Image via Wikipedia Getting a bad grade, especially when you expected something else entirely, pretty much stinks. It’s hard enough being...

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...

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...

We need to define Judaism more broadly. The Jewish teens I work with in a Jewish community high school are looking for more ways to...

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,...

photo courtesy of ePublicist Almost every day I experience a huge disconnect between my reality and the world of foundations and...

The world in mosaic tiles, courtesy of Genista. I recently visited a blog on manufacturing (not my usual topic for browsing) because it...