STORIES & LATEST NEWS
COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS
The Funder Collaborative shares original stories, thought pieces and blogs, models of promising practices, and news from our local communities and their initiative partners. We invite you to explore these articles which highlight some of the ideas, programs and people shaping this new path forward in Jewish teen engagement and learning.
Creating Relationships Defined by Radical Candor
By Emily Messinger Creating an environment in which relationships defined by openness, honesty, and transparency can flourish is a great goal to have, albeit difficult to achieve. [...]
Dear Evan Hansen: We Are Here to Help
I experienced my lowest point as a parent early on, when my 2.5-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer. I felt distraught, guilty, and helpless. Sure, I could [...]
DOROT Brings Teens to the Riverdale Y
By JLBWC Staff | August 30, 2018 Rose Cohen, DOROT intern, at the Riverdale Y. Monday, July 23, was a day of orientation and training for the [...]
Initiative Links Jewish Teens to Service Scholarships
By Donald H. Harrison Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The teenager in your family may be interested in two related websites. One, www.motivsandiego.org, will introduce him or [...]
Communities Embrace a Holistic View of Teen Engagement
As the High Holidays approach, many of us will engage in introspection and reflection: What do we make of the past year? What are hopes for the year [...]
Training the Educators We’ll Always Remember
Developmentally, teens are in the midst of a significant process of becoming. In the teen years, we begin to move from our parents’ ideas and habits to [...]
Sharing the Impact of Jewish Student Connection
By Eliana Goldberg and Marwan Nassr One of us is a Jew. One of us is a Muslim. And this is our story of building a genuine [...]
Investing in Peer Leadership
Jewish Teen Initiative’s signature Peer Leadership Fellows program trains and empowers teens to be communal connectors. Fellows reimagine how they can develop meaningful relationships with their peers, connecting those [...]
Let’s Get Together: Understanding each other’s culture
In March, 36 African-American and Jewish teens from Chicago traveled together to the nation's South on a bus trip called "Let's Get Together: An Interfaith Journey Toward [...]