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Contra Costa Midrasha

photo illustration. a young white man in a hoodie is seen from the back in a city at night. he is enveloped and obscured by a multi-colored bubble.
Posted inHealth

A lost year: Teen mental health during the pandemic

by Gabriel Greschler April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

Looking up and down from their screens, concerned parents and grandparents scribbled notes as they listened to a Zoom presentation by Marjorie Swig, founder of Greenlight Clinic, a mental health […]

Sam Benabou, a junior at College Park High School in Pleasant Hill, is one of the teens behind the Hamsa Fund. (Photo/Courtesy Benabou)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Covid-19 can’t stop these East Bay Jewish teen fundraisers

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 4, 2020June 9, 2020
(From left) Israelis Maya Bramli, Liel Paz and Noa Rosario, with American teens Tamar and Adee Franbuch getting to know each other at the Golden Gate Bridge of the first day of Contra Costa Midrasha’s Mifgash adventure.
Posted inNews

Israeli and U.S. teens connect during Bay Area ‘encounter’

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 26, 2019June 26, 2019
a man shows to young women a book, while one of them takes pictures or video of it
Posted inJewish Life, Seniors

Teens, seniors collaborate on documentary film project

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 12, 2017May 15, 2017

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