J-Serve

By Emma Graham In BBYO, the unspoken rules of high school do not apply. All are welcome, and everyone is made to feel important and included. In this environment, weekly meetings and events become outlets for teens who shy away from raising their hands in class or joining school clubs.Continue Reading

tent city 3

By Neve Levinson A sukkah is a temporary dwelling that modern Jews create to reconstruct the shelters our ancestors used while wandering in the desert. The only restrictions on how they should stand are that they must have a complete open wall, and its visitors must be able to seeContinue Reading

Ultimate Peace

By Jacob Greene, Special to the Jewish Sound For several months this year, I lived in Israel. The majority of my time I spent studying with Alexander Muss High School in Israel, along with 29 American and Canadian teenagers, with support from an Israel scholarship from the Jewish Federation ofContinue Reading