what is the ideal summer experience for your teenager? Jewish summer camp.  Arts classes. Internships. Specialty Sports Camps. College...

Make sure the activity gives back! Soccer teams. Dance classes. School activities. SAT prep classes. After-school jobs. Volunteer work....

One minute. Three reasons. Why just three reasons? Simple. Your time is valuable. Plus everyone’s way too busy getting ready for the...

Ronald A. Heifetz: “Leadership in times of crisis”   How can you make this connection for #Jteens? A blog I read in the Harvard Business...

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...

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...

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

Milkshakes taste good. Jewish education is good. But what job are we really doing for Jewish Teens? I read an article about marketing...

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

By now, I think most educators have figured out that technology is not something that can be isolated from educational endeavors, but...

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

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...

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...

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...

My blog posts rarely ever make the ideal 250 word count mark. I read somewhere that the perfect blog contains just that amount for...

Image via Wikipedia Some parents are guilty of treating Jewish education like a side dish, something that will never star as the main...

What are the obligations of a Jewish supplementary high school in raising the ethical level of its students? How do we hold our students...

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...