The 10th grade at the San Francisco Waldorf High School has an amazing 3-4 week course on Tanakh during the year long “Explorations in Early Literature” track course. In the track course, they learn the Ramayana, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia, the New Testament and more. For Tanakh, students read passages, do pictorial representations of scenes, learn…
The art work I create would not have come to be without the intense struggle for survival my maternal grandparents endured– all in the name of being Jewish. It seems that the survivors of the Holocaust atrocities all have similar themes– Fascism, starvation, dehumanization– but also hope. Our family’s story is no different. Here’s a video of my grandmother…
Thanks to the Jewish Student Satellite Initiative , I will answer this question! Tomorrow’s conversation will be with a teen group formed to create Jewish education experiences that are tangible and integrated with science and art. I will share the story of the Barbed Wire Mezuzah, which was selected to travel into space with the first Israeli Astronaut, Ilan Ramon. I…
The act of being called upon to read from the Torah in front of a congregation is called an aliyah: an ascent or instance of rising. When one receives the honor of being called upon to read from the Torah, the Rabbi, Cantor or spiritual leader uses this art to hold the place of the next reading. For years I…
Every year before the Passover Seder, my Holocaust survivor grandmother would say, “Once we were slaves. Now we are free. Every day I live is a victory over Nazi brutality.” As a child this holiday meant so much to me. Today, we continue to honor her and all those who are not free not just by celebrating Passover, but by…