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Boston Jewish community teens. (Courtesy of Jewish Teen Initiative of Boston)
May 27, 2020, 3:39 pm
Virtual initiative promotes teen well-being, mental health in COVID-19 crisis
Families face multiple challenges as they shelter in place together for months and the busy lives of adolescent children are put on hold indefinitely
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Research fellow Christine Hayes teaches a seminar at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America's New York headquarters. (Courtesy of Shalom Hartman Institute of North America via JTA)
August 22, 2019, 12:14 am
Shalom Hartman Institute of North America receives record $20 million in grants
Funds for expanding Jewish leadership and educational program come from Koret and Jim Joseph Foundations
By JTA
The 'Israel Story' team (Courtesy/Photo by Avishag Shaar Yashuv)
April 30, 2018, 3:53 am
The Podcast: an accidental pulpit for a new Jewish conversation
With the rampant popularity of this new media genre, as a new cadre steps up to the mic it is — inadvertently or not — changing a generation’s engagement with Jewish content
By Tracy Frydberg
Rabbi Donniel Hartman, dean of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Shalom Hartman Institute)
September 14, 2016, 8:37 pm
Hartman Institute receives $1m grant for Israel engagement programs
Funding will allow religious pluralism think-tank to launch new education initiatives at West Coast campuses
By JTA
Jewish Federations of North America president Eric Fingerhut. (Courtesy)
September 11, 2015, 6:14 am
Hillel gets $16M grant from Jim Joseph Foundation
Funds to go toward new strategy to help campuses and communities implement best practices for supporting Jewish student life
By JTA
Illustrative image of outdoor summer theater. (photo credit: Yitz Woolf)
February 11, 2015, 12:37 pm
$9.2m. expands summer options for Jewish NY teens
Jewish surf camp and theater program among the eight funded initiatives
By JTA
Modeling excellence? Baltimore High School students engaging in the Teens Can Identify program, which supports Jewish life and learning in local non-Jewish independent schools. (courtesy TCI program of The Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education in Baltimore/JTA)
July 16, 2014, 12:47 pm
Colorado launches major teen engagement project
Focus on teens participating in Jewish formal and informal education through a variety of experiences
By JTA
October 9, 2013, 10:42 am
Jewish arts experiential ed program opens in DC
George Washington U. program will offer an interdisciplinary curriculum from museum education and Judaic studies
By JTA
Illustrative: BBYO participants. (Courtesy of BBYO via JTA)
April 1, 2013, 7:49 pm
New study offers tips on engaging Jewish teens
Research suggests social media, stronger staffing and added flexibility are effective for cultivating hard-to-reach group
By Gil Shefler
September 14, 2012, 10:23 am
Foundation for Jewish Camp announces four new specialty camps
Camps are designed to reach demographic and geographic populations underserved in Jewish camping
Rabbi Asher Lopatin, right, the incoming president of the Modern Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, confers with Rabbi Yehoshua Eichenstein, the Zidichiver rebbe, at Chicago's Siyum HaShas celebration. (photo credit: Fred Eckhouse Photography/JTA)
September 9, 2012, 8:11 pm
How much will new rabbinical school leader shake up the Orthodox world?
With an emphasis on ‘open Orthodoxy,’ Rabbi Asher Lopatin — soon to take over the liberal-leaning Yeshivat Chovevei Torah — is stirring up both interest and opposition
By Uriel Heilman
College student outreach leaders came to the Hillel Institute at Washington University in St. Louis to learn the ins and outs of engaging their less engaged peers, August 2012. (photo credit: Paul Granados/JTA)
August 14, 2012, 9:50 pm
A new plan for Hillel looks beyond its traditional pale
Unaffiliated Jewish students are being lobbied by a new brand of Hillel student who seeks Jewish life outside the walls of the traditional campus Hillel House
By Neil Rubin
March 16, 2012, 9:28 am
Camp foundation grant to fund new specialty camps
The new camps to engage the 90 percent of Jewish youth in grades 6-12 who do not report memorable camp experiences
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