Devra Aarons News Today

Honors The Teen Initiative Community Convening on Racial Justice, sponsored by S.F.-based Jewish LearningWorks, took place on April 21 and included the presentation of awards to three Bay Area Jewish youth professionals. Devra Aarons received the  2020 Award for Excellence in Jewish Youth Education and Engagement, Rick Concoff received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award in Jewish Youth Education and Engagement, and Zephira Derblich-Milea, youth program manager at Shalom Bayit, was awarded ...

Looking up and down from their screens, concerned parents and grandparents scribbled notes as they listened to a Zoom presentation by Marjorie Swig, founder of Greenlight Clinic, a mental health facility for teens and young adults. The February event, hosted by Congregation Emanu-El, was billed as “Supporting Your School Age Child and Adolescent Through the Pandemic,” and at about the halfway point, when Swig finally turned to the topic of teens, the tone became more urgent as she described...