The Art of the Touchpoint: Everyday Tools for Deepening Teen Relationships
Join the Foundation for Jewish Camp and The Jewish Education Project to explore how small, intentional moments—“touchpoints”—can create meaningful connections and build lasting relationships with teens. Our webinar will equip you with simple, powerful tools you can keep in your back pocket to foster trust, spark reflection, and strengthen engagement in any setting.
- Educator Training
- Camp
- Congregational Learning
- Family Engagement
- Teen Engagement
Before joining Foundation for Jewish Camp in 2008, Avi was the Campus Rabbi and Assistant Director of the St. Louis Hillel at Washington University and has held numerous positions as rabbi, educator, and youth leader. He spent 17 years as a camper and then educator at Ramah Camps in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and YUSSR camps in the Former Soviet Union. Avi has a B.A. in religious studies from Columbia University. He was ordained in the charter class at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, the open Orthodox rabbinical school. Avi lives in White Plains, New York, with his wife, Cantor Adina Frydman, and their children, Yadid, Yishama, Emunah, and Libi.
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