Showing posts with label teenagers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teenagers. Show all posts

Jun 22, 2017

kids that follow the law

The Chief of Police, Roni Alshich, who seems to have been doing a praiseworthy job since he took over, has announced he will be forming a new youth group that will train the youth to follow the law. It seems that a kid making a similar suggestion to him suggested it because parents are setting a bad example.
source: Mako News

I hope it helps, but it seems strange. Has he given up on society in general? Are there no models to impress upon the public in general to follow the law?





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Mar 8, 2017

PSA: Program in RBS for teens about the impact of smoking




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Aug 10, 2015

From the mailbox: teenagers and minyan on vacation

received today in my mailbox:

Dear Rafi,
  I hope you are doing well and enjoying the summer.
I have  2 sons one is 13 and the other is 16 and since they finished school I find it very difficult getting them to go to minyan in the morning.  Perhaps some of your readership is familiar with this problem and maybe they have some suggestions.

Look forward to hearing  from your or them,
thoughts? anybody with advice? I think most people with teenagers have the same issues and questions...


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Jun 25, 2014

Proposed Law: change minimum age for voting to 17

MKs from Yesh Atid, Yifat Kariv and Boaz Toporovski, have submitted a law proposal to lower the eligible age for voting for Knesset elections to 17.

Supposedly, according to a couple articles I read, they expect this law to bring them in some young voters after polls indicate waning interest among the general public in Yesh Atid, but that seems to be an assumption. This is being assumed because a number of parties, including Yesh Atid, have mentioned that they expect new elections in the near future...

In their explanation to the proposal they explain that 17 year-olds in Israel are mature and responsible - they can drive, they can go through testing for units in the IDF and more. Their involvement in society and politics is unavoidable. Young people today are fully aware of information about society and the State, sometimes even much more so than those older. They should also be able to choose their representation.

If these teens are so responsible at 17, why did the Knesset recently say they are not responsible enough to get married? If they can drive and read the news they should also be able to get married, by this logic! I am not against 17 year-olds voting, but why pick that age? Why not 16? why not leave it at 18?


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Jul 13, 2007

didn't you ever want to do this?

I remember in yeshiva there was always a legend of this having happened. Did it ever actually happen? I do not know. You will find lots of people who will say there classmate did it, but I think it might be a bit of an urban legend.

We used to get fines in yeshiva for infractions. if we came late too many times to davening, it would be a $5 fine. if late to learning seder, maybe a $7 fine. Going to sleep past curfew was worth $10.(I made those numbers up, I do not really remember the real amounts).

So legend always had it that there was a guy who was fined often for various infractions, and his fines were building up to a significant amount. he got fined once for something he thought he did not deserve (he probably was not given the benefit of the doubt after so many infractions) that when he went to pay his fine, he paid it in pennies, greatly annoying the Rebbe.

Is the above story true? I do not know. I always believed it, but as I got older I got more skeptical about it...

Well, now the story happened. In real life. In living color..

Some students were getting upset at the long, slow lines in Mc Donalds, and the low quality food served there (they could have just gone to a different restaurant, but I guess there reaction was more interesting!).

They decided to get revenge. Eventually the project just became a way of fighting off the boredom. They decided they would collect enough 5 and 10 agura coins (1.5 to 2 cents) to buy about 600 shekels (about $150) worth of food.

It took some time but they did it. They went in to Mickey Dees and ordered 600 NIS worth of food. When the cashier rang it up, they called in their friends with the bags of coins and they dumped out all the coins on the counter. The branch had to have some of the other employees help count the change, messing up the whole branch for the rest of the day.

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