Teen Heroes

Connor Tukel brings tech to seniors, entrepreneurialism to students

The Teen Heroes column is sponsored by the Helen Diller Family Foundation. To learn more about the foundation’s $36,000 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards, visit http://dillerteenawards.org. (JTA) — While visiting his grandmother in Florida last winter break, Connor Tukel helped set up her new iPhone. “Then it hit me that it was so easy for […]

By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan February 5, 2015 12:24 pm

Morgan Davidson makes good on vow to grandmother

The Californian’s Ambassadors for Hope Club has raised over $8,000 for cancer-related causes.

January 29, 2015 12:28 pm

Adena Rochelson stocks shelters and pantries with needed toiletries

Dubbing her project “Operation Soap Dish,” this 15-year-old partners with supermarkets, toiletry manufacturers, synagogues, churches and fraternities at nearby Syracuse University to collect and distribute more than 28,000 items.

January 15, 2015 12:34 pm