The Jewish Scholastic Press Association is now accepting entries for the 2022 Jewish Scholastic Journalism Awards, deadline Feb. 18, 2022. JSPA will award a first-, second- and third-place certificate in each category. A Grand Prize in Jewish Scholastic Journalism will then be selected from among the first-place winners.  The winner will be awarded a personal recommendation from the American Jewish...

Watching with the rest of America as the Taliban swiftly took over Afghanistan last month were two members of Los Angeles’s Orthodox Jewish community who are currently on active duty in the U.S. Army. Major Moses Scheinfeld and Army chaplain Rabbi David Becker were stationed in Afghanistan during 2018 and 2019, as U.S. forces worked for 20 years to strengthen the Afghani military to protect...

For hundreds of years, people have immigrated to the United States to escape persecution or in search of a better life. Recently, large numbers of people have been immigrating from Afghanistan and other places around the world to locations all around the country, including Kansas City, Mo., and there are many organizations here to help them out. Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) is one of these Kansas...

Many students look forward to an extended Sukkot break each year. Some families wish to take a family trip to Israel for the holiday; others want to enjoy the annual Chol Hamoed rain-fest at Six Flags Great Adventure. And many Ramaz students just want to hang out at home with their families in the Sukkah. However, Ramaz students this year had to commute to the building on 79th street and sit through...

I genuinely cannot remember the last time we had a sex education class in high school. In middle school, we learned about anatomy and puberty, with some talk about safe sex. All that I remember from the sporadic high school health classes is talking about drugs, alcohol, consent and how to establish a healthy diet and exercise routine. It is the school’s responsibility to adequately prepare students...

Approximately 60 NYHS community members gathered at North Seattle’s Magnuson Park Sunday, September 12, to participate in Reverse Tashlich, a worldwide Jewish marine cleanup initiative. Participants gathered to hear words of Torah, come together before Yom Kippur, and make an impact on the local community. Reverse Tashlich is a program created by the Tikkun HaYam (literally “repair the sea”)...