JEWISH TEENS ASK THE HARDEST THINGS
Here are five of the issues Orthodox teens want to discuss, according to Rabbi Yaakov Glasser of NCSY:
• Belief in God. “A lot of kids are not walking around with a coherent and confident sense of how they know that there is a God in the world,” he says.
• The truth of the Torah. “How do we know that everything we are observing is the way it was intended to be?”
• The importance of religious observance. “A lot of kids are questioning whether God cares about the details of how I wash my hands in the morning.”
• Sexuality.
• Suffering. “We don’t always address the theological issues of suffering in an age- appropriate method.”
source: http://www.ou.org/shabbat_shalom/article/the_struggle_for_teen_spirituality/
A presentation of this issue will be addressed by Rabbi Yaakov Glaser, the NJ
NCSY regional director.
