Archives for September 2010

In celebration of Simchat Torah – “…the Torah furnishes us with a failproof plan for leading our lives in harmony with God. The ideal of living by Torah is that whatever we do, we will act in unison with God in such a way that there will be no perceptible difference between what we do […]

An amazing on-line resource for enrichment activities is the website BabagaNewz.com BabagaNewz provides a wealth of information, activities, and lesson plans for a multitude of Judaic topics. One small sampling of the offerings on BabagaNewz – I selected “Learning Torah” from a long list of “Jewish Values.” Among the activities featured were a virtual tour […]

In the past few weeks, I’ve written a number of posts detailing the Lesson Plan G.A.M.E. We’ve arrived at the fourth element: E=Extensions and Enrichment. Lesson extensions and enrichment activities enhance and personalize learning as the class progressses toward meeting curricular goals for a topic of study. Example: According to your Lesson Plan, by completing […]

The Gates have closed. The notes of the shofar are a memory. The evening to evening observance of Yom Kippur has provided us with an extended opportunity to think Jewishly about ourselves, our families, our world, and our God. On Yom Kippur, we recall events both joyful and troubling from the past year. We try […]

“… Yom Kippur has become the moment when most Jews individually and the Jewish people collectively experience the strongest sense of partnership and covenant with God – the strongest sense that if the people have striven with all their energy to redress the wrongs they have done, God will forgive them and give them a […]

*Posts entitled “Shalom Kitah Gimel Students…” are written especially for my Hebrew students and their families. All are welcome to read these posts and share in the excitement of a new school year. What a wonderful first day of Hebrew School! Our students were pleased to hear that we’re studying modern Hebrew. As this is […]