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		<title>Teens: Cheating on Standardized Tests?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Schapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times reported that California is coping, almost feverishly it seems, with new measures that require students to turn in digital devices before taking standardized tests. &#8220;The proliferation of cellphones and their potential use for cheating has prompted heightened security measures on this year&#8217;s administration of standardized tests in California schools.&#8221; In the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jteennews.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19845373&#038;post=1827&#038;subd=jteennews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Jewish Teens Might View Rights, Responsibilities, and Radicalization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Schapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A while back, I was listening to a televised lecture by Joseph Telushkin on Shalom TV about the differences between Jewish and American Law. To greatly paraphrase him, Jewish law is about taking responsibility. There are so many laws in Jewish tradition that are based on individual accountability: regulating weights and measures, building proper [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jteennews.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19845373&#038;post=1819&#038;subd=jteennews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teens: Watch Your Social Media Presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Schapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Treat every conversation you have on Twitter or Facebook as if it were a nationally televised press conference.&#8221; This advice is not a recommendation from a public relations firm, or from a head hunter, or from a corporate policy book on social media. Nor was it taken from a how-to book on political life. None of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jteennews.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19845373&#038;post=1788&#038;subd=jteennews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Betrayal, Abandonment, and Jewish Teen Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Schapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Sunday I met with a group of parents interested in checking out options for their teens&#8217; Jewish education. They were committed to their children&#8217;s education and wanted the best for them.  Currently, their 7th grade teens were in a synagogue school, but were unsure that staying there would meet their children&#8217;s needs. One parent found [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jteennews.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19845373&#038;post=1777&#038;subd=jteennews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parent Conversations With Teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Schapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is busy, so how do we get the time to interact with teen-aged kids when everybody is literally on the run? By the time teens are in high school, the time you may get to spend with each other may be less than an hour per day&#8211;including dinner. Try to take that in. That&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jteennews.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19845373&#038;post=1725&#038;subd=jteennews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;But I&#8217;ve already been to the museum!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jteennews.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/but-ive-already-been-to-the-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Schapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire school was taking a trip to the relatively new National Museum of American Jewish History, located in Philadelphia. The museum, with thousands of historic treasures, interactive exhibits, and multi-media presentations, has caused many people to say that they could spend days there and not see everything. Yet, we heard that one student, when [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jteennews.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19845373&#038;post=1712&#038;subd=jteennews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doing a 360 on Attendance in a Part-Time School</title>
		<link>http://jteennews.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/doing-a-360-on-attendance-in-a-part-time-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Schapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I participated in a webinar, sponsored by JESNA, on issues related to complementary (supplementary, part-time) schools. This was an unusual experience. I was asked to facilitate a group of about ten online participants and discuss the topic of declining attendance. Aside from one familiar name, I didn&#8217;t know any one. We examined the issue [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jteennews.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19845373&#038;post=1625&#038;subd=jteennews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catching Catfish: Real and Unreal Life for Jewish Teens</title>
		<link>http://jteennews.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/catching-catfish-for-jewish-teens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Schapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you think you can keep pace with the bizarre events of the everyday, you find yourself having a discussion with Jewish teens that blows the dust off your brain just a bit. This is necessary. It keeps the distance between the generations and confirms for teens why they&#8217;re glad they&#8217;re not as old [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jteennews.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19845373&#038;post=1613&#038;subd=jteennews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uphill Marketing to Jewish Teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Schapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an advocate for Jewish teens, and believe that all teens benefit from a Jewish education past the usual drop-off age of Bar/Bat Mitzvah. By Jewish education, I don&#8217;t mean madrichim programs (where teens aide in classrooms). I mean teens participating in educational programs that build curiosity and challenges their intellect. Full disclosure: see [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jteennews.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19845373&#038;post=1568&#038;subd=jteennews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“After My Bar Mitzvah, My Dad Decided to Convert. Is He Still Considered Jewish?”</title>
		<link>http://jteennews.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/after-my-bar-mitzvah-my-dad-decided-to-convert-is-he-still-considered-jewish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 07:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Schapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t prepared for such a troubling question by this slight yet earnest 8th grader. He had been so patient; holding his hand up until the discussion left an opening. This evening, the teens were very talkative once they got going about the topic: Intermarried Families. His question arose during a workshop on sensitizing Jewish high school [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jteennews.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19845373&#038;post=1598&#038;subd=jteennews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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