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man writing on table
Posted inYouth Voice

Finding my voice as a Jewish teen, even when it feels safer to stay quiet

by Leor Hersh April 10, 2025April 14, 2025

For weeks, the media was filled with emotional footage of Israeli hostages returning home — some to long-awaited reunions, others only to memories and several in coffins. Watching those scenes […]

Julian Berkowitz-Sklar
Posted inPhilanthropy

3 Bay Area Jewish teens win $36,000 Diller Teen awards for social justice projects

by Jordan Greene June 28, 2023June 29, 2023
A white woman in her 60s wearing glasses smiles while seated near a piano
Posted inJewish Life

Q&A: Brooke Joseph talks getting teens to vote and the making of a U.S. president

by Liz Harris July 27, 2022July 28, 2022
HaZamir singers at the 2016 gala concert at Carnegie Hall.
Posted inMusic

HaZamir, the international Jewish choir, seeks teen singers for East Bay chapter

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 30, 2022June 30, 2022
LEAP participants listening to a tour guide at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
(Photo/Thomas Echevarria)
Posted inUncategorized

At Palo Alto JCC, teen group ‘leaps’ between Israel and diaspora

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 30, 2022May 27, 2022
Israeli teen emissaries with the ShinShinim program, Noa Herman (second from left) and Nir Chen (right), having lunch with students at Wornick Jewish Day School in Foster City.
Posted inEducation

Teen emissaries bring Israel to Bay Area students, gain appreciation for U.S. Judaism

by Dan Pine March 9, 2022March 9, 2022
From “When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers” by New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein
Posted inOff the Shelf

New Yorker cartoonist brings to life lost Yiddish essays by European teens of 1930s

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman December 17, 2021December 20, 2021
Emma Mayerson
Posted inNews

Early lessons in philanthropy inspired her to create this group for teen girls

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin October 18, 2021
Jasper Vyda, a junior at College Prep high school in Oakland, giving his TEDx Talk on Sept. 17, 2021.
Posted inEducation

This Bay Area 16-year-old confronted antisemitism on the TEDx stage

by Mark Lawton October 13, 2021
NorCal NCSY teens beautify a bench at a youth center in Kiryat Gat, Israel.
Posted inNews

Sightseeing? Sure. But this teen trip to Israel was much more. 

by Dan Pine August 27, 2021August 30, 2021

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