teenagers
Yearbook Spells Israeli Student’s Name ‘J-E-W’
California high school prints 1,600 copies without catching misspelling prank
A Different Kind of Summer Vacation: Jewish Teens Take a Bus Across America
Through music, politics, and barbecue, Etgar 36 trips help high-school students develop a sense of identity as Jews and Americans
The Evolution of the Bar Mitzvah Dance Video
Introducing Sam Horowitz and his troupe of scantily-clad female dancers
Thirteen Signs That You May Have Attended Jewish Summer Camp in the 1980s
Still cry when you hear ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’? Remember how to Dippity-Do your hair? Take a trip down memory lane, camper.
Volunteer Service Draws Israeli Teens Before They Start Stints in Military
‘They learn to take responsibility, to be there for other people,’ says one organizer of the year-long Shin-Shin program
Learn To Love Your Jewish Body
As teenage girls wrestle with their body image, new programs look for solutions in Jewish tradition
The Devil in Sarah Stein
Thane Rosenbaum’s young-adult novel The Stranger Within Sarah Stein, takes on the Holocaust and Sept. 11 but can’t reconcile Jewish past and future
Hypnotizing Norman
Outside my cloistered yeshiva, I found a new social order and a friend who, unlike me, was trusting enough to submit to someone else’s authority
How a British Museum Curator Discovered Noah’s Ark Would Have Been Round
Irving Finkel, an expert on ancient Mesopotamia, decodes a Babylonian tablet and traces its path to the Book of Genesis
After the Holocaust, the Dutch Tried To Collect Past Due Taxes From Survivors
How one shy, whistle-blowing intern in an Amsterdam archive uncovered a travesty that insulted a decimated community
Centuries Ago, Jews Were Farmers Like Everybody Else. Why Did They Leave the Fields?
Two economists argue that literacy, not laws forbidding land ownership, created a small, widely dispersed and highly skilled minority
- The Bachelorette Finale: Wait, Josh is Jewish?!
- Debating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Demands Empathy, Not Just History
- Remembering Estelle Getty, Who Would Have Turned 91 Today
- Gigantic Replica of Solomon’s Temple Opens in Brazil
