Tag: Teens
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Lost Tribe Esports- Video Games for the Jewish People
I encountered Lost Tribe Esports at the 2019 JCC Maccabi Games at Jewish Community Center of Metro Detroit in West Bloomfield. Situated in the Teen Center of the JCC (which was the Holocaust Memorial Museum when I was a teen), I found dozens of Jewish teens playing video games. At first, I was a little…
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Jewish Musicians Rock on the Web
We all know that Jews can rock. After all, you only need to listen to Bob Dylan or Gene Simmons of Kiss to know that. But there are also some Jewish singers who are rocking Jewish music… and I don’t mean Jon Fishman leading Phish in “Avinu Malkeinu.” I remember in 1999 when the Jewish…
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Is Email Dead Yet?
Email is like a cat. I don’t know if it has nine lives, but people still use this form of communication even though it’s been pronounced dead many times in recent years. The general consensus among experts in online communication is that social media is killing the medium of email. Just as companies and organizations…
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Unplugging from Technology at Summer Camp
Almost about every summer camp today has policies in place regarding the use of technology by campers. Rules governing whether campers can bring their cell phones, iPods, digital readers, and smartphones to camp (and if so, when they can use them) have been part of ongoing discussions as new forms of technology are introduced into…