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Becoming a JCC Diller Teen Fellow
It was June, 2011 and I was a high school freshman interviewing for a place in the 2011-2012 Boston JCC Diller Teen Fellowship cohort. I...
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Are you (or is someone you know) a Jewish adoptive parent?
Chances are, you or someone you know is an adoptive parent. As Adam Pertman demonstrated so conclusively in Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is...
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Kids & Parenting
"We Hold Judaism as a Special Treasure": Three Observations from Pirke Dorot
Jewish peoplehood and Jewish identity were front and center on the Prozdor “Pirke Dorot” trip to Israel last week. While I joked over the course...
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Israel & Overseas
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Looking at Christmas as a Jew
Now that I’m an “adult” (all of twenty-three, which everyone loves to remind me is still so young), I have such an affinity for this...
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20s & 30s
Pinksy and Machover Bring Shadow and Light to NCAC Event
I should admit up front that I have very little personal experience when it comes to the opera – when I was 10 my family...
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Arts & Culture
Ronit Ziv-Kreger on Strengthening Jewish Identity
Ronit Ziv-Kreger, Director of Learning Innovations While completing my Ph.D. thesis at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, I studied the connections between motivation and identity....
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Judaism & Spirituality
Bringing Buber Into The Conversation
The exploration of the formation and maintenance of modern Jewish identity is an abiding passion of mine, and one of the key ideas informing the...
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Judaism & Spirituality
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The Boston Synagogue Annouces 'Parenting Series for Interfaith Couples' -- where one parent is Jewish
The Boston Synagogue announces a new three-part series entitled, "Parenting Series for Interfaith Couples" to be held on three Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 8:30...
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Kids & Parenting
The Legacy of Jewish Emancipation Lingers On
Since the New Vilna Review is a publication devoted to exploring modern Jewish identity in arts, culture, politics and theology, I thought this week I...
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Judaism & Spirituality
JCC Diller Teen Fellows Class of 2010-2011--Mazel tov!
Mazel tov to the just-announced JCC Diller Teen Fellows Class of 2010-2011!The JCC Diller Teen Fellows are 20 tenth- and eleventh-grade students who will undertake...
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