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Monthly Archives: August 2018

  1. Rabbi Danny Zemel's Non-Jewish Parent Aliyah Blessing Brings Changes for Interfaith Families

    Rabbi Danny Zemel's Non-Jewish Parent Aliyah Blessing Brings Changes for Interfaith Families

    To provide a welcoming, inclusive ceremony for interfaith families, Rabbi Daniel Zemel of Temple Micah in Washington, DC created a different Bar-Bat Mitzvah blessing

    The Zemel Non-Jewish Bar-Bat Mitzvah Parent Aliyah Blessing gives family members with different faith backgrounds a way to be involved in such a big part of the ceremony for their children. 

    A recent article from Temple Micah's Vine featured the Parent Aliyah Blessing and what it means for interfaith families

    This May, Aurie Hall will be able to participate in her son's bar mitzvah, which she was unable to do two years ago with her oldest son. 

    "This new prayer recog

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  2. Small Resource, Big Impact: Start the Year Off with Intention

    Small Resource, Big Impact: Start the Year Off with Intention
    In this age of Google calendar, Trello, and myriad other digital ways to keep organized, there is one simple way to stay on top of your tasks and goals - a paper planner.
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  3. Simple Ways Madrichim Can Make a Difference

    Simple Ways Madrichim Can Make a Difference
    Teens can offer invaluable help to teachers in many classroom settings. Here are some ideas.
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  4. 4 Classroom Management Tips to Start the School Year

    4 Classroom Management Tips to Start the School Year
    The most important part of classroom management is building respectful relationships with and between your students, according to Batsheva Frankel, author of The Jewish Educator's Companion.
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  5. Tech Tools: Illustrate A Concept Quickly with Animated GIFs

    Tech Tools: Illustrate A Concept Quickly with Animated GIFs

    Welcome to Tech Tools, our new newsletter feature. Written by Debbie Harris, this column will bring you excellent technology tips to inspire you and add creativity to your teaching.

    The Technology

    Animated GIFs - those short little videos that are usually just a few scenes long - are all over social media, and they are a fun way to demonstrate a project, give a few directions or share an idea. 

    Draw Island is a website that can help you make your own animated GIFs. It allows you to create multiple drawings, and then creates the animation. 

    To create your set of drawings, you can draw freehand within the website, or choose from the provided menu of pre-drawn shapes. You can also add text to your drawings or upload your own photos to the site.

    After you have completed each drawing, click the “Save to animate” button, and it

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  6. Activate Learning with Alef-Bet Flash Cards

    Activate Learning with Alef-Bet Flash Cards

    Alef-bet flash cards are a simple yet versatile learning tool

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  7. Wise Aging Workshop: Living with Joy, Resilience, and Spirit

    Wise Aging Workshop: Living with Joy, Resilience, and Spirit

    The women in my family have always lied about their age.  My bubby lied, my mother lied and, in keeping with that tradition, I too have lied.

    Somehow it seemed fitting that I should be asked to speak to a group of senior citizens about aging. I immediately thought that this would be a perfect opportunity to use Wise Agingby Rabbi Rachel Cowan and Dr. Linda Thal, as my resource. Wise Aging is organized in a way that works for facilitated or self-created book groups, with enough material and questions for a year's worth of group discussions.

    This workshop reminded me of the importance of providing people of all ages with opportunities to learn and study together, and to share their own life experiences in discussion groups.

    I began by sharing a personal story: Every year on Mother’s Day, I go to the cemetery in Toronto where my mother and bubby are buried. I share some privat

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  8. Best Practices for Using Hebrew in Harmony Digital

    Best Practices for Using Hebrew in Harmony Digital
    Music is the key element of Hebrew in Harmony—it brings the program to life.
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  9. How to Use Storybooks These High Holidays

    Children love listening to stories. Whether they’re family stories told around the table, or books read aloud before bedtime or in a group with peers, stories are powerful ways of communication for young people.

    Ann Koffsky, an editor at Apples & Honey Press, points out that “our Jewish tradition is full of stories. It starts with the Torah and continues with the Aggadah and Midrashim in the Talmud.” Storytelling is also part of our more modern tradition with the Haggadah on Passover and the stories of Chassidic masters, like the Baal Shem Tov and Rebbe Nachman.

    In The Secret of Happy Families, author Bruce Feiler describes research findings that “knowing stories of their family and the history of their family is best single predictor of children’s emotional health and happiness.” When we tell our children the traditional stories that have been handed down to us from generation to generation, we are not just transmitting a code of behavior,

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  10. 3 Rosh Hashanah Resources You Can Use Right Now


    How are you teaching Rosh Hashanah this year?

    We've tapped into our rich materials and rounded up a few new ideas for you to enhance student learning this new year.

    Put On a Play

    Few learning experiences are more meaningful than those students create for themselves. Help students recount the story of Isaac's birth, traditionally read on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, through a skit. Bring the characters, events, and ideas of the story to life with the script, from Sedra Scenes

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