Youth

Temple Emanu-El’s youth group SMARTY (Swampscott Marblehead Area Reform Temple Youth), accompanied by Youth Director Jill Simmons-Wetmore, visited Brooksby Farm in Peabody for an afternoon of apple picking, hay rides, doughnuts and more on Sept....

CAMP JORI Camp JORI, located on 75 pristine acres in Wakefield, Rhode Island, is a coed Jewish overnight camp for children in kindergarten through grade 10. Our comprehensive and growing program of sports, arts, adventure...

BOSTON – Hillel Council of New England (HCNE) announced that it has begun a new partnership with Combined Jewish Philanthropies. HCNE is CJP’s operating partner for Boston Onward Israel, the flagship professional internship program in...

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...