Sparknotes Blog

September 29, 2020
JumpSpark Launches Innovative Third Year of Strong Women Fellowship
By developer in 2020
ATLANTA, GA – Jumpspark’s Strong Women Fellowship, an empowering educational cohort for Jewish teens in grades 9-12, has continued to grow in size and expand programming to feature a Teen Board leadership position for third...
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September 8, 2020
Launching RootOne – The Jewish Education Project’s Major New Teen Israel Experience Initiative
By Jewish Education Project in 2020
Today The Jewish Education Project launched an ambitious new initiative to transform teen travel to Israel. Known as RootOne, the initiative is seeded with a $20 million gift from The Marcus Foundation and will help...
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August 31, 2020
Finding your College Community in this New Reality
By Abigail Ventimiglia in 2020
This past week at the University of Georgia has been unlike anything I’ve ever expected. I never thought I’d be ordering meals via GrubHub or wearing masks in the lounge or rushing sororities online with...
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July 29, 2020
The Closet
By Eli Rubenstein in 2020
This year has been an absolute nightmare for the world. We started it off thinking we were starting World War 3, and then we were all quarantined for months, away from family and friends, because...
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March 6, 2020
Spark Note: Educating Generation Z about Israel
By Annie Fortnow in 2020
As JumpSpark considers its role in expanding teen Israel education in Atlanta, we find ourselves at the forefront of a changing approach to this topic for teens today. In December 2019, I had the opportunity to travel to Israel with The Jewish Education Project (TJEP) and other...
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February 18, 2020
Announcing JumpSpark’s New Navigating Parenthood Coordinator
By developer in 2020
JumpSpark recognized early on that parents are an essential component to an engaged and healthy Jewish teen population. In response, JumpSpark launched Navigating Parenthood in 2018. Over the past two years JumpSpark has hosted 16...
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