Should Parents Insist That Their Teens Partake In Jewish Life?
What is the balance between giving teens individual control over their non-academic time commitments versus setting requirements, particularly around Jewish activities?...
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Reflections on Bat Mitzvah Comes of Age by Hannah Elbaum
Hannah Elbaum is a junior at Newton South High School. She is an active participant in the North American Federation of Temple Youth-Northeast region, a Diller Teen Fellow from the Boston cohort of 20…
Beauty: From the Scroll to the App
During the Hebrew month of Adar, Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! groups wrestle with questions about the standards of beauty they experience in American culture, meeting the biblical hero...
Group Leader Spotlight: David Lieberman
David Lieberman talks about the very real challenges the teen boys grapple with in his Shevet Achim groups....
Challenges for Teens in a Sexualized Environment
While you may not have learned about it in Hebrew School, Jewish tradition has a positive view of sexuality. Unfortunately, teen girls and boys are growing up in a highly sexualized environment wher...
Group Leader Spotlight: Anya Manning and Elie Lehmann
Rosh Hodesh and Shevet Achim group leaders at Temple Beth Avodah in Newton Centre and Temple Aliyah in Needham respectively, both near Boston....
The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction
For years we have blamed teens’ behavior on their “raging hormones”– which do in fact affect teens. With more sophisticated brain imaging, researchers now understand that underlying many notor…
Teen Boys and Homophobia: A Jewish Approach to Some Underlying Issues
How does Shevet Achim: The Brotherhood address the challenge of teen boys and homophobia?
By applying Jewish texts and challenging commonly held assumptions....
Group Leader Spotlight: Terry Wunder
Terry, a Shevet Achim leader at Stephen S. Wise Temple in Los Angeles, says Moving Traditions' National Training Conference was "enormously helpful" in preparing him to lead his group....
Four things to emphasize when presenting the issue of Women of the Wall to American teenagers
1- What the wall is and is not. The Western Wall is a place of historic and religious importance to Jewish people all around the world. The last remaining remnant of a sacred religious site that our a…