Youth

Despite anxiety over civil and political unrest – and the ever-present threat of COVID-19 – three college students from Swampscott’s Congregation Shirat Hayam headed to Israel for summer internships. They returned in agreement on three...

With more than 400 books to her name, fans of Jane Yolen might wonder where the acclaimed Western Massachusetts author gets ideas for her still-growing, dazzling array of new books. In the case of her...

In anticipation of the 2022 restart of the annual international March of the Living (MOTL) program for Jewish high schoolers to Poland and Israel, New England Friends of March of the Living has committed to...

DUXBURY – Senior Molly Taberner was among a group of 18 Duxbury High students who completed the Salem-based Lappin Foundation’s first ever Holocaust Symposium for Teens over the summer, which included a trip to the...

MARBLEHEAD – Gann Academy’s spring graduating class contained just one senior from Marblehead. However, Gann’s incoming freshman class will contain a contingent of five North Shore students who will be making the trek to Waltham...

MARBLEHEAD – The well-known youth development expert Dr. Deborah Gilboa – also known as Dr. G – is bringing her take to the North Shore on how the pandemic could lead to more empowered and...

As the summer camp season begins, organizers are pleased with how everyone is following COVID-19 protocols that in some ways are less strict than the previous year. “I would say kids and parents are really...

The Juvenile Aid Scholarship Organization held its annual luncheon on June 9. The organization provides scholarships to deserving Jewish high school graduates of the North Shore. Funding is primarily secured at the annual luncheon, with...

In a fitting introduction to a ceremony celebrating Rose Ruderman, Combined Jewish Philanthropies President and CEO Rabbi Marc Baker compared schools to gardens and educators and heads of schools to the gardeners tending the soil....

Elle Seller of Swampscott said she cried when she learned Camp Tel Noar, like other Jewish camps in the region, would be canceled last summer due to the pandemic. “I was planning to go to...