Apr 24
Shorashim has been reading Megillat Rut, a story from the Tanach in which Ruth gleans barley from a field. Last week we talked about using a variety of our senses to experience the barley but we were missing a key sense: taste! This week we cooked barley in the form of barley pudding! Let Shorashim …
Jan 22
This week in Shalom Chaverim we used our guf (bodies) to explore the ways Jewish people around the world celebrate Shabbat! There were ample opportunities to use our af (nose) to smell the spices of Havdalah as we created our own spice paint together– and then we used out etzbaot (fingers) to create colorful and fragrant …
Apr 05
After 10 weeks of serious investigation of the Exodus story, our final week of preparation for Pesach was a little more lighthearted. Anafim (Branches, 3rd and 4th grade) spent last week cooking! We learned about how the Jews of Cochin, India celebrated–cleaning for months and then making matzah together as a community. On …
