Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Posted on: May 17th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesLeah Katz, a TeenZone camper at Oorah’s TheZone summer camp and an 11th grader at Midwood High School, read her winning essay about how TheZone changed her views on Judaism at the Jewish Heritage Awards Ceremony held at Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes’s office in April. The purpose of the Jewish Heritage Essay Contest is to acquaint public school students with Jewish history and customs and to help foster a deeper understanding of Jewish culture. The contest is open to students of all ethnic and religious backgrounds. Leah’s essay is reproduced in full below.
Posted on: May 10th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesYou have probably been planning your marriage since you were about three. Let’s fast-forward to a big milestone– your twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. (Don’t worry, you don’t look a day over twenty one!) Now, would you appreciate your husband buying you a dozen roses that some florist recommended?
Posted on: April 26th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesIt was September 25, 2006. Tammy, an oblivious, petite, third grader lay in bed, counting her stationary collection, when she decided she needed a drink. As she descended the staircase, she was surprised to see her mother dressed in this bubby-like gown.
Posted on: April 19th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesI didn’t need that much garlic. After all… how much garlic, exactly, could I put into the chicken without overdoing it? But something made me leave the white, rounded head on the counter after cracking off a few bulbs, rather than putting it back in the fridge. Maybe I’d need more.
Posted on: April 12th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesI can feel the fear pulsing through my veins, blocking out everything around me. I walk down the long, unembellished hall, which is dimly lit with fiery torches at every bend. I can’t help but wonder if it was purposely built this way to terrorize me. As I slowly edge towards the doors, I keep telling myself it’s going to be fine…but what if it’s not? I can feel my stomach twisting as I turn the last corner and come to a complete stop.
A Large Cup of Kindness to Go, Light and Sweet
Posted on: April 5th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and Twenties“I have a room,” she said. “Saturday I will move in. My church is paying for it. I’m here today and tomorrow, hopefully that will give me enough to get an air mattress, and then I will never do this again.” I wished her luck, and I walked away, feeling moved by the interdependence all humans have on each other, and with a deeper understanding of just how much we get when we give.
Posted on: March 29th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesHe is anyone at all who just simply does not know how to ask, whether scared, uneducated, or yes, young. He represents the people who simply do not know enough yet to ask the serious questions of the chacham.
Posted on: March 22nd, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesOne of my favorite movies to watch growing up was Runaway Bride with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. On a whim, I decided to watch it this past weekend, taking a break from intensive LSAT studying. Julia Roberts plays a woman who works at her family's small-town hardware store. She has earned a notorious reputation for ditching her fiancée on her wedding day.
Posted on: March 15th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesPrepare for something that will change the lively atmosphere of Coney Island forever. Casinos may be coming to your neighborhood! This must be stopped!
Posted on: March 7th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesThey try to manipulate you into thinking that by definition you're a shell and on the inside your dead, you don't exist. They put zero meaning into life. The shell is their focus - that's what they make of life!
Posted on: March 1st, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesI have to admit it. I was scared. And I don’t get scared. Or at least I don’t like to advertise when I do. But the wording of the e-mail from the U.S. State Department was so… harsh. Violent armed robberies are on the rise in Peru. In just three days I was going to be a U.S. citizen traveling alone to this apparent hotbed of crime called Peru, starting out in big, bad Lima.
Posted on: February 22nd, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and Twenties"...will the kid say, 'Oh, I'm walking into the strange house, just like Goldilocks?! Maybe the kid will think..” Apparently I had walked into a family discussion of the pros and cons of reading fairy tales to children.
Posted on: February 15th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesA little while ago, I was at my friend’s house for Shabbos. Her younger sister, who was in second grade, had a friend over; let’s call her T. According to today’s beauty standards, T was absolutely gorgeous. In addition to being physically appealing, her personality was totally adorable.
Posted on: February 15th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesI close my eyes and fall back rejoining the strong women of my history
Posted on: February 8th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesAt the end of 2012, I was in Israel and looking out at the Jerusalem night sky. I was filled to the brim with inspiration and decided to challenge myself to become a more educated young woman. Simply put, I was going to read as many books in a year as possible. I’m not sure if that would actually have made a difference in my level of education but it seemed like a fun goal at the time.
Posted on: February 1st, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesMy relationship with social media is and remains an ambivalent one. Unlike many of my peers, I did not initially embrace social media, from its beginning stages with AOL instant messenger and proceeding quickly on to MySpace and Facebook.
Posted on: January 24th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesTommy's eyes were fixed on the screen for the fourth hour that day. He sat there immobile, staring at the people fighting on the TV show. Unsurprisingly, the next day the principal called Tommy's mom - Tommy had beaten up two boys in his class that day.
Posted on: January 24th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesWhen the train has departed the station, Fresh of food and of saturation, The journey ahead excites, With all the could bes and the might's,
Posted on: January 24th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesI nod my head and smile again, The burning creases brand my skin
Posted on: January 18th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesThe New York Muni-Meter system is a disaster! There are many issues that have presented themselves with this new idea and they need to be solved.
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