After struggling to find educational ways for her JCC campers to connect with Jewish values and tradition, Joy Getnick created her own game, Middot-opoly. Learn how she developed the game and then ...
An animated series now available as a companion to Explorer's Bible lets students earn badges in a quest to apply biblical values in daily life. For use with the Online learning Center.
Now is the perfect time to help students develop proficiency in Hebrew with online practice and recording. They can record from any computer so you can spend more quality time with your students.
The school year is well underway. After the rush and tumble of Tishre, we and our students have perhaps settled into Heshvan, beginning the longest stretch in the Jewish calendar without a holiday. We can enjoy what Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, in her book Tapestry of Jewish Time, called the blessings of routine:
“Moments of grand celebration fade into our unremarkable daily routines. Some may call it boring; some may consider it drudgery, tedious, flat. But whatever we think, it is the place where we live most of our lives, in the valley of the everyday . . . If we listen closely to the rhythm, we can hear the blessings in the humdrum of the everyday. Just as white space frames the letters of the Torah, so intervals of time frame our celebrations.
"The task of life is not to trudge through the mire of the everyday, waiting and longing for the redemptive air of the holidays. The task is to bring the inspiration of that air of the holidays into each of our days. These quiet weeks between Sukkot and Hanukkah teach us do just that.”
Here are some resources to help you bring inspiration and fun into these ‘regular’ moments of the school calendar this fall.
