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“This was so much better than we expected!” The 8th graders reflected on their two weeks of virtual Israel programming that stood in for their IRL Israel tiyyul this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our two-week...
Jewish day schools across the country have pivoted overnight to transition into virtual learning environments. We feel great pride in the way our schools’ leadership, teachers, families and students have worked together in a...
By just about any measure these are difficult times. We have been forced to acclimate to an unprecedented paradigmatic shift in the way we live, learn, and work in a very short period of time. Many of us are also dealing with...
Maintaining normalcy during these abnormal times is our goal. The schools are educating through online platforms. Many shuls are using Zoom to daven “together,” even if it’s not with a minyan . We are beginning to prepare for...
If you know my father, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, then you have probably heard the joke that he sleeps in a three-piece suit (as they say, “It’s funny ‘cause it’s true”). Which is why I never liked wearing suits. As far as...
Creativity in Quarantine By Bethany Strulowitz I think we can all agree that these past weeks have been nothing short of exhausting. The marathon days, the late nights, the endless calls to tech support, the communications to...
Every teacher everywhere is lesson planning, or at least thinking about how they are lesson planning, throughout the summer. This past summer my lesson planning looked a little different than usual. I was going to a new...