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Jewish Teen Funders Network Announces New Direction and Name: “Honeycomb”

With a growing international footprint and new intensive trainings, resources, and consulting services, the Jewish Teen Funders Network has rebranded as Honeycomb (honeycomb.org), focusing on helping educators and community leaders run immersive Jewish philanthropy experiences and programs and other meaningful grantmaking activities for youth and families. Following more than a decade fostering Jewish teens’ philanthropy, Honeycomb recognizes…

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Virtual Hackathon for Jewish Teens

Teens across the country can register for a Social Innovation Virtual Hackathon taking place Sunday, October 25 from 1-5 pm ET – a one-day event to learn how to become a young social changemaker and use innovative thinking to turn problems into opportunities. The Hackathon is organized by the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Funder Collaborative…

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A gap year alternative in Portland

PHOTO: The Tivnu cohort from 2017. The Tivnu Gap Year is nine months of hands-on Jewish social justice engagement. Participants create a community living together, discovering the Pacific Northwest, and exploring the bond between Jewish life and social justice while working with Portland’s cutting-edge grassroots organizations. Tivnu usually has 9-10 participants for their gap year…

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Kishka Klassic Benefit Tourney Moves to RedTail

PHOTO: The winners of last year’s Kishka Klassic, from left: Jonathan Singer, Evan Bernstein, Les Gutfreund and Brad Stern. On Sept. 10, NCSY will host its 4th annual Kishka Klassic Golf Tournament. The event is set up as a four-person scramble and includes 18 holes of golf, green fees, golf carts, a BBQ lunch, a dessert…

Eugene sophomore lives and learns in Israel

Last summer at B’nai B’rith Camp, Tala Schlossberg heard a presentation about the Alexander Muss High School and realized, “I could learn math and science in a classroom or learn it in Israel and visit places and study history. That sounded like a much better experience.” So instead of sitting in classes at South Eugene…

Oregon’s Jewish youth groups connect teens to their heritage

Discovering one’s Jewish identity is a lifelong journey. At 17 years old, I have attended both private Jewish day school and public high school. Surrounded by my Jewish peers, my elementary and middle school years were a time when I was able to study Judaism and easily embrace my heritage. It wasn’t until I began…

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Tivnu builds on social Justice

Many Jewish youths seeking a gap year experience between high school and college head to Israel. Steve Eisenbach-Budner has no qualms about that – as a teen, he participated in a Young Judaea program in Israel before the term “gap year” was even invented. Yet he recognizes that not every young adult has the desire…