Category
youth
Op-Ed: Risk aversion is risky business
\”Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?\” Robin Marantz Henig asked in The New York Times Magazine (\”The Post-Adolescent, Pre-Adult, Not-Quite-Decided Life Stage,\” Aug. 22). Lori Gottlieb urged reluctant single women to “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough\” in The Atlantic Monthly (March 2008), later a book. Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett advised revising priorities in \”Creating a Life: What Every Woman Needs to Know About Having a Baby and a Career\” (2002).
Younger Persians seeking greater role in community
Over the past decades, nearly two dozen local Iranian Jewish groups have been involved with political awareness efforts, but no group until now has seriously pursued or organized communitywide political and civic activism.
Extending the Birthright privilege
Birthright\’s success in awakening a connection to Jewish heritage and Israel is unprecedented in American Jewish life. The number of alumni continues to multiply and their enthusiasm is infusing new energy into American Jewry
‘Teenism’ gives young adults an undeserved rep
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are more than 20.2 million people in America aged 15 to 19, and they are 7 percent of the population. So be careful what statements you make, or what biases you might allow yourself to believe.
We don’t need more gabfests on diversity
Our communities\’ leadership has to absorb the reality that the next generation of open-minded young people sees diversity as a plus, not as a burden to be overcome.
Obituaries
In a prayer for his ordination from the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in 1940, Wolfgang (Wolli) Kaelter wrote: \”Grant us depth that we might understand, vision that we might see, and let us never become self-satisfied.\”