Teen Mental Heath
How to Help Students Manage Stress and Anxiety Before College
Parents and therapists can play a role in helping students manage stress and set realistic expectations as they prepare for college. Sponsored by Viewpoint Psychology...
We Need to Talk…and Listen, Too
Federation launches podcast as latest channel of communication in youth mental health program. Photography by John Hardwick The power of talking about mental health…just think about...
How EMDR Therapy Can Help
Therapist Lori Gordon-Michaeli breaks down what EMDR therapy is and how it can help people process and resolve traumas. Developed by Francine Shapiro Ph.D., this...
5 Ways to Limit Your Child’s Phone Use
In world where most of us are glued to or phones, consider these five tips to help your child develop healthy phone use. Sponsored by...
The Trouble with Unrecognized Trauma
Unrecognized or unprocessed trauma from childhood can affect our daily functioning and behavior patterns as adults. Do you ever have thoughts, feelings or behavior patterns...
How to Support LGBTQ+ Teens
By Ronelle Grier Photography by Anthony Lanzilote Parental support in particular is essential to teens within gender and sexual minorities. Today’s teens are under pressure like never...
The Dangers of Vaping for Teens with ADHD
Young people with ADHD are at greater risk for e-cigarette nicotine addiction. By Elizabeth Katz When Jewish teen Leah was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) last...
The Downfalls of Perfectionism
Jillian Lesson, a high school student at Frankel Jewish Academy, explores the idea of being perfectly imperfect. By Jillian Lesson Perfectionism. That word seems to have...
Julie Lythcott-Haims Shares Insights from ‘How to Raise an Adult’ at Temple Beth El
Julie Lythcott-Haims encourages parents and professionals to take a second look at their parenting tactics. By Allison Jacobs There is no exact science to parenting, but...
Help Wanted
By Aerin Fink It started with the lice. After two months of camping, I had tiny bugs crawling all over my scalp. I knew all...
Alleviating Anxiety
Expert offers tools for handling fear, worry, panic and obsessive thinking. By Ronelle Grier, Contributing Writer Anxiety is invisible, yet it can ravage the lives of those...
Social Media Use More Likely to Make Girls Depressed
Though social media can be a helpful tool for teenagers to learn and connect with friends, experts have long warned that too much social...
Must Read
One Man’s Exodus Echoes the Jewish Experience
One of the basic tenets in Judaism is the Exodus from Egypt. The Ten Commandments begin with the words: “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” We are compelled to recall this extraordinary event in prayers like the V’ahavta and Shabbat evening Kiddush. Passover commemorates our people’s freedom from slavery after this momentous escape. This theme is familiar — especially for Salomone Castro.
West Bloomfield Resident Creates App to Help People Connect at the Grocery Store
New app helps people connect at the grocery store.
Time to be Counted
Detroit’s Jews in under-represented populations respond to the 2020 Census.
LIST: Virtual Events/Learnings Happening in April
STAYING CONNECTED At this time of social distancing, the Jewish News will try to bring awareness to events/learning situations that are being offered online by...
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