Last Shabbat, when the Torah Scroll was raised following the completion of Sefer B’Midbar, I was startled to see how “unbalanced” it was. Most of the Torah Scroll containing the first four Books had, of course, been wound to one side, leaving only Sefer D’varim to be chanted in the 5773 Torah cycle. This image […]
Archives for July 2013
Devarim: Knowing Your Limits
How do we know how much we can handle? Moses once again provides us with a wonderful example of knowing when we sometimes need to ask for help. For more information about Rabbi Danny, please visit RabbiDanny.com The opening and closing music for this podcast is Coming Out of the Dark by Matt Stamm. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/JCastNetwork.com/storage/TwoMinutes/073.mp3Podcast: […]
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WORDS: A Word To The Wise (Devarim)
Welcome to WORD. A weekly word from the world’s best seller. In this weeks episode, Amichai Lau-Lavie focuses on the word WORDS, and the Torah portion, Devarim. To subscribe or read the text version of this blog, and to learn more about Amichai Lau-Lavie please visit Amichai.me. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/JCastNetwork.org/storage/word/040.mp3Podcast: Download
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Believing In One God…What’s The Point?
“What’s the point of Judaism?” How many of us have asked this question? Turns out, Jews have been asking them for a long time. Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students study and discuss “Sefer Ha-Hinukh/The Book of Education.” Written anonymously in the mid-13th century, this radical book offers rationales for every commandment in […]
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Two Jews On Pacific Rim
Here’s all the important things you need to know about director Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi, action film, ‘Pacific Rim’… Planet Earth has been invaded by the Kaiju…Super sized monsters that have risen from a portal underneath the ocean…Millions of earthlings have died and things are not looking good for humanity. Our only hope for stopping […]
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The Torah Team: The Beginning
After a three month hiatus to deal with health issues, my husband, Alan, is resuming his role as a B’nai Mitzvah tutor. For twenty years he has studied with students and their families to help students prepare their D’vrei Torah. Now something new has been added, me! Continue Reading…
Reaching Kitah Gimel : Weekly Welcome Activity
“Reaching Kitah Gimel ” posts are a continuing feature which present learning activities which I’ve recently used with my 6th grade Hebrew class. These activities can easily be modified for use with students in other grade levels including adult education. Continue Reading…
I Heard The News Today
In this episode of The JCast Journey, host Darone Ruskay talks about the amazing focus that came out of the posts on eJewish Philanthropy recently when a blog post about the Jewish communities focus (or lack thereof) regarding the needs of Jews in their 40’s and 50’s. Darone refects on his feelings that as a […]
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I’m back!
Shalom! It has been months since my last post, but now I’m back to continue sharing activities, projects, techniques, resources, and commentary – all related to Jewish Education and lifelong Jewish Learning. This past school year, I tried several new approaches to engaging my 6th grade Kitah Gimel Hebrew school students. The next several posts […]
Playing in the Sand: Getting Ready for the RealSchool Summer Sandbox
Why am I going to a Jewish Education conference called the RealSchool Summer Sandbox? I’m not a Day School educator. I work in Congregational Jewish Education. I’m a religious school director. My focus has been mainly in part time Jewish educational frameworks. What is it about The Sandbox that has intrigued me so much that […]