Hope you are all having a great week! We had a wonderful session on Sunday and I really enjoyed the family discussions of Shalom Bayit. Are those compliment wheels being used? I encourage you to display the family covenants somewhere in your home and hold each other accountable for following your "commandments" of one another. Hopefully you'll see some positive changes (and maybe some extra cleanup helpers)!
We don't have another family session for two more weeks (11/11), and I know the parents are going to miss learning with their children! MyJewishLearning.com a great website with lots of resources, short texts and discussions surrounding Jewish learning and living. I particularly enjoy the section about "Building a Jewish Home", which underscores many of our discussion this year and in past years of Religious School.
We look forward to seeing your kids this Sunday and having you all join us for tefillah at 10:40 in the Adult Lounge!
L'Shalom,
Julie
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Honoring our Mothers and Fathers
Hope you are all having a great week! Now that the whirlwind of the holidays is over, we can all take a collective breath and move forward into 5773. Last week, we spoke about honoring our mothers and fathers and thanking them for all they do for us. I hope you all enjoyed the cards your children brought home! They were incredibly thoughtful about how they appreciate each of you and what they can work on to be even better sons and daughters in the future. It was really touching!
Here are some photos of the students working on a recent art project - they really are getting closer as a community and continuing to work hard and ask great questions.
Here are some photos of the students working on a recent art project - they really are getting closer as a community and continuing to work hard and ask great questions.
I look forward to seeing you all at our family session this Sunday 10/21. If you haven't signed up for a breakfast time yet, please email me - bressler.julie@gmail.com to sign up!
Julie
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Hi YBY Families!
We had a great discussion of Btzelem Elohim this past week in YBY. I really enjoyed hearing the students talk about things they thought had been influenced by God such as butterflies and beautiful trees. We'll continue this discussion this week and parents will have the opportunity to discuss with one another how we individually connect with God and how to talk about God within our families. I look forward to hearing your various perspectives. Here's a recording of one of my favorite Jewish camp songs, B'tzelem Elohim by Dan Nichols (sung as it is best- with a huge group of teens singing along!)
After what seems like many weeks of Jewish holidays, we are finally approaching the end of the cycle! As much as I have enjoyed observing with my friends and family and having extra days off work (I also work for the Jewish Federation of the East Bay!), it will be nice to have a regular schedule again. I hope to see many of you at Temple Isaiah's Simchat Torah celebration and Consecration potluck on Sunday beginning at 5:30 pm. The Consecration potluck is for all kindergartners and new students to Religious School.
One of the last holidays of this cycle is Shemini Atzeret, which is a pretty mysterious holiday to Jews today. Click here for a website that has some more information, but know that many scholars even are confused by its importance and origin! We know that we begin saying the prayer for rain on this holiday and it's a part of the eight-day festival of Sukkot.
Speaking of many Jewish holidays, a new website has popped up that is very useful! I also find it pretty funny that it exists at all, but definitely appreciate its information.
http://www.isitajewishholidaytoday.com/ Enjoy!
L'Shalom,
Julie
We had a great discussion of Btzelem Elohim this past week in YBY. I really enjoyed hearing the students talk about things they thought had been influenced by God such as butterflies and beautiful trees. We'll continue this discussion this week and parents will have the opportunity to discuss with one another how we individually connect with God and how to talk about God within our families. I look forward to hearing your various perspectives. Here's a recording of one of my favorite Jewish camp songs, B'tzelem Elohim by Dan Nichols (sung as it is best- with a huge group of teens singing along!)
After what seems like many weeks of Jewish holidays, we are finally approaching the end of the cycle! As much as I have enjoyed observing with my friends and family and having extra days off work (I also work for the Jewish Federation of the East Bay!), it will be nice to have a regular schedule again. I hope to see many of you at Temple Isaiah's Simchat Torah celebration and Consecration potluck on Sunday beginning at 5:30 pm. The Consecration potluck is for all kindergartners and new students to Religious School.
One of the last holidays of this cycle is Shemini Atzeret, which is a pretty mysterious holiday to Jews today. Click here for a website that has some more information, but know that many scholars even are confused by its importance and origin! We know that we begin saying the prayer for rain on this holiday and it's a part of the eight-day festival of Sukkot.
Speaking of many Jewish holidays, a new website has popped up that is very useful! I also find it pretty funny that it exists at all, but definitely appreciate its information.
http://www.isitajewishholidaytoday.com/ Enjoy!
L'Shalom,
Julie
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