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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.
SUMMER: The New York Teen Initiative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLWSxQlEavPQ7mRzlWKs8YiODCXzN_t915&v=h3PvW2ykJK8 The goal of the New York Teen Initiative is to increase the number of teens participating in immersive and inspiring Jewish summer experiences, by meeting the unique [...]
LA Jewish Teen Initiative (LAJTI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD4e09HY2ow Created to ignite teens’ passions, inspire teen educators, and support vibrant organizations serving the future of the Jewish community, the LA Jewish Teen Initiative (LAJTI) is [...]
Ideas in Jewish Education and Engagement
Training the Educators We'll Always Remember September 13, 2017 Developmentally, teens are in the midst of a significant process of becoming. In the teen years, we begin [...]
Sababa Surf Camp Connects Kids with Surfing, Sand and Judaism
By Ryan Torok September 6, 2017 Danny Mishkin had just one question for the 14 teens and tweens in his Sababa Surf Camp in Malibu over Labor [...]
Testing the Waters: New Summer Teen Experiences
There was something fishy about the Sci-Tech Israel program.Just ask Robert, a rising junior at a Westchester high school, who joined 28 other teens from the New [...]
From Grant Funding to Sustainability, Life After “Start-Up”
By Adam Smith In 2009, Jewish Teen Initiative – Boston (JTI), then known as the North Shore Teen Initiative (NSTI), launched in the 23 cities and towns just north [...]
New! Atlanta Jewish Teen Initiative
Click on this post to watch the video and learn about this exciting new opportunity for teens in Atlanta - straight from the director!
When Experiments Go Well: How a New Investment from the Jim Joseph Foundation Will Help Moving Traditions’ National Expansion
By Deborah Meyer and Jeff Tiell The teen years have always been a challenge. Figuring out who you are; navigating complex social systems; being pressed to succeed [...]
Jewish Teens: Finding Activities After Bar/ Bat Mitzvah
By Darren Schwartz Darren Schwartz NEW YORK — In my last column I identified a major challenge in Jewish teen engagement the stems from a disconnect in [...]
