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Kids & Teens

Making a Difference

Debrah Constance is the director of A Place Called Home (APCH), a community center and safe house for inner-city kids in South Central.

5760 Los Angeles

Keeping kids in a home with comfortable reference points is the ideal scenario for county and state agencies that place foster children, whether that means within ethnic or religious communities or special-need communities, such as the hearing- impaired.

The Class of 2000

In this era of school violence and body piercing, teenagers, never the most applauded demographic segment of our society, have been getting some amazingly bad press. To hear the media tell it, adolescents who aren\’t destroying themselves or others are just too lazy and apathetic to be bothered.And if Jewish teens aren\’t filling up juvie hall, they\’re not filling up the synagogues, either. After Bar and Bat Mitzvah, we\’re led to believe, you never see them again. Why would Jewish kids hang out at shul when they can be cruising around in their parents\’ Beemers, downloading porn from the Internet, turning their brains into Swiss cheese with drugs?

A Super Cyberconnection

Today, schoolchildren in Israel and California can become best friends over the Internet.

Endpaper

Long before last August, when he had his bar mitzvah at Santa Monica\’s Beth Shir Shalom, 13-year-old Alex Miller has practiced what he has been preached: charity and tikkun olam.
For him, it all began in 1996, when Miller\’s third grade class participated in Super Sunday.

\”I really enjoyed it,\” he recalls. \”Whenever a phone opened up, me and my friend would run for it.\”

Right at the Start

It\’s not only that children are killing children.

Be Happy, It’s Adar!

Purim is upon us. Time to stock up on story books to share:

Shared Dreams

To honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., schoolchildren all over the country are learning about his fight to win civil rights for black Americans through nonviolent protest.

Embracing Diaspora

The old-time Zionist religion had it that the only good Diaspora Jew was the one who made aliyah and settled in the ancestral land.

Teaching The Tots

The field\’s low prestige and low salaries — in the New York area teachers average $20,000 with no benefits — as well as a surge of other career options now available for women, make recruitment of new teachers extremely challenging.

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