SJUA Launches Youth Mentorship Program

Beginning May, 2026, in an effort to develop a more productive, bold, and educated Abayudayan adult generation of tomorrow, SJUA launched a weekly mentorship program for the Abayudayan teenagers of today. The mentors are six qualified American Jewish university students at Yeshiva University and Stern College for Women, based in New York. Each week, the mentors meet with their Abayudayan teenage mentees over video, and instruct them in focus areas such as Jewish ethics, Jewish practice and prayer, and the Jewish approach to respectful male-female relationships and the honor and dignity of Jewish womanhood. To encourage more direct and comfortable dialogue between mentor and mentee(s), the number of mentees per meeting is intentionally kept small, and the mentees are matched with mentors of their gender. The youth mentorship program has only just begun, and there are kinks that need to be worked out, but it has already produced sessions full of positive instruction and conversation. We are excited to see the program grow into itself as time goes on!

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