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The Class of 2000

By Ellen Jaffe-Gill

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/the_class_of_2000_20000616

In this era of school violence and body piercing, teenagers, never the most applauded demographic segment of our society, have been getting some amazingly bad press. To hear the media tell it, adolescents who aren't destroying themselves or others are just too lazy and apathetic to be bothered.And if Jewish teens aren't filling up juvie hall, they're not filling up the synagogues, either. After Bar and Bat Mitzvah, we're led to believe, you never see them again. Why would Jewish kids hang out at shul when they can be cruising around in their parents' Beemers, downloading porn from the Internet, turning their brains into Swiss cheese with drugs?

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Comments:	A friend has recommended you read the following from The Jewish Journal... The Class of 2000 In this era of school violence and body piercing, teenagers, never the most applauded demographic segment of our society, have been getting some amazingly bad press. To hear the media tell it, adolescents who aren't destroying themselves or others are just too lazy and apathetic to be bothered.And if Jewish teens aren't filling up juvie hall, they're not filling up the synagogues, either. After Bar and Bat Mitzvah, we're led to believe, you never see them again. Why would Jewish kids hang out at shul when they can be cruising around in their parents' Beemers, downloading porn from the Internet, turning their brains into Swiss cheese with drugs? http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/the_class_of_2000_20000616 Sign up for our free email news alerts at http://www.jewishjournal.com/email.

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