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Teen trip to Poland, Israel puts young leaders face to face with Jewish history

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Twenty-five Jewish teens from around the world traveled through Poland and Israel this summer as part of a CTeen Heritage Quest designed to connect young Jews with their history and traditions. The group visited significant...

Girls from Torah Prep boast sweet scores with ‘Candy’ tech creation

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“Candy” is a colorful LEGO-clad robot about the size of a toaster. She’s small but powerful. That’s also an apt description for her creators, the robotics team at Torah Prep School of St. Louis. The group...

Teenage girls arrested for walking with Israeli flag on Temple Mount

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Two Israeli teenagers were detained by security forces on Wednesday morning after one of them wrapped herself in the country’s national flag at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, rights activists said. The two girls,...

Jewish boy, 13, youngest to make South Africa’s Chess Olympiad national team

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Caleb Levitan, an eighth-grader at King David High School Linksfield in Johannesburg, has set a new record, becoming the youngest person to make the elite chess team representing South Africa at the Chess Olympiad global...

BBYO centennial draws thousands of Jewish teens to Orlando convention

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Thousands of Jewish teens and adults from 46 countries gathered at a hotel in Orlando, Fla., for BBYO’s annual international convention. Held from Feb. 15-19, the convention, which took place at Rosen Shingle Creek and was...
Rabbi Avi Hoffman (left) introduces the three Jewish Scout—from left: Gabriel and Joshua Greengas, and Coulton Perrmann—who each became a bar mitzvah at the 2023 National Scout Jamboree in Glen Jean, W.V., on July 24, 2023. Photo by the National Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

Jewish Jamboree: Three Scouts celebrate bar mitzvahs among friends

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The 2023 National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America ended on July 28 after 10 activity-packed days at the high adventure Summit Brechtel Family Scout Reserve in Glen Jean, W.V. Contingents of more than 12,500...
(Illustrative) Student with book. Credit: Pixabay.

Minnesota backs off on challenging religious education

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A new law that sought to prevent teenagers attending parochial institutions from participating in Minnesota’s Post Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program now will no longer be enforced. Loe v. Walz included Christian families and schools who jointly opposed...
Some 700 Jewish teens from 32 communities in seven countries completed a life-changing three-week seminar in Israel as part of a year-long Diller Teen Fellowship, August 2022. Credit: Courtesy of Diller Teen Fellows.

Some 700 Jewish teens from seven countries wrap up Diller Fellowship program

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A total of 700 Jewish teens from 32 communities in seven countries completed a life-changing seminar in Israel as part of a year-long Diller Teen Fellowship, an immersive leadership program for teenagers from across...
Midwood section of Brooklyn, N.Y. Credit: Lennox Wright/Shutterstock.

Jewish teen in Brooklyn punched for refusing to say ‘Free Palestine’

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A Jewish teen walking in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Midwood in Brooklyn, N.Y., was hit in the face by an attacker because he wouldn’t say “Free Palestine.” The victim and his friend, both 18-year-old yeshivah students, were...
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 737. Credit: NYC Russ/Shutterstock.

Jewish teens sue two airlines for discrimination after being banned from flights

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A group of Orthodox Jewish girls from New York has filed a complaint against Delta Air Lines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for the discrimination they say they faced on flights last summer, reported Insider. The...