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Students protest for increased school safety after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, on February 14. (Zoe Terner/NFTY)
March 5, 2018, 11:37 am
Jewish students march for their lives to advance stricter gun control laws
A broad coalition of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox synagogue youth groups join a nationwide movement of young people demanding an end to mass shootings
By Cathryn J. Prince
Sawyer Goldsmith is the religion/education vice president for the international board of USY (Courtesy of USY)
February 7, 2018, 4:13 am
First openly transgender teen elected to board of Conservative youth group
Sawyer Goldsmith hopes his new appointment at United Synagogue Youth will show other young LGBTQ members that they belong
By Josefin Dolsten
Maya Wasserman
December 24, 2017, 4:04 pm
Maya Wasserman
The USY dating scandal that isn’t
My Jewish youth group is too busy turning teens into leaders to play hookup games
Illustrative photo (via iStock)
December 19, 2017, 2:58 pm
Conservative Jewry has #MeToo moment as decades-old sexual abuse surfaces
After an internal investigation, the movement cuts ties with its longtime youth head. But a leading child advocate says it shouldn’t take one person’s courage to change a system
By Cathryn J. Prince
Jules Gutin (Screen capture: YouTube)
December 18, 2017, 11:40 pm
Conservative youth group cuts ties with ex-head accused of sexual misconduct
Jules Gutin denies allegations, which the CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism says ‘were wide ranging and all inappropriate’
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Some 800 teens attended the annual United Synagogue Youth international conference in 2014 in Atlanta. (courtesy)
November 28, 2017, 3:03 am
US Conservative movement launches hotline for reporting sexual impropriety
Move comes in response to allegation by former member of its youth movement that he was molested by a senior staff member in the 1980s
By Josefin Dolsten
Friends and family attend a ceremony in memory of Ezra Schwartz at Ben Gurion international airport on Saturday night, November 21, 2015 (Moti Karelitz/ZAKA TEL AVIV)
November 22, 2015, 2:08 am
Hundreds turn out to pay last tribute to slain US teen
Ezra Schwartz, killed in a terror attack on Thursday, flown to Boston for his funeral; ‘he had a wonderful life,’ father says
By TOI staff
Opening session of the 2014 United Synagogue Youth international convention in Atlanta, Sunday December 21, 2014. (Ethan Weg)
December 25, 2014, 1:47 am
Jewish world erupts as USY gives interdating a kinder spin
Acknowledging and welcoming the children of intermarriage is not the same thing as condoning it, say Conservative Jewish leaders
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Recent high school graduate Joe Goldberg, of St. Louis, promotes community service in the Conservative movement. (Courtesy Joe Goldberg/via JTA)
June 29, 2014, 1:02 am
Jewish teen finds self while helping the homeless
Joe Goldberg encourages Conservative Jewish teens to do community service and reach 54,000 hours by October
By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan
Ben Yehuda Street (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
August 24, 2013, 2:31 pm
Haman’s hat: Life in the Jerusalem Triangle
Where Jaffa Road meets King George Street meets Zion Square lies a hub that is the heart of commercial action outside the walls of the Old City
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Alexander Gould, who played Shane Botwin in "Weeds," sitting in the playground of the Yeruham elementary school where he taught English this spring (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
May 31, 2013, 4:03 pm
‘Weeds’ star forgoes suburbia for an unrecognized stint in the desert
Alexander Gould completes a 10-month stay in Israel — learning Hebrew, deepening his connection to Judaism, and teaching English to schoolkids in the Negev — in welcome anonymity
By Jessica Steinberg
August 1, 2012, 2:46 pm
Jewish LGBTQ teen retreat to be held in Connecticut
Includes a performance from hip-hop music artist Y-Love, an Orthodox Jew who recently came out publicly as gay
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