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Interfaith Social Action Day
I am familiar with the phrase “Sara Beth plans, and God/nature/Murphy’s Law laughs.” (I’m paraphrasing.) January 28th was one such day. I live and work in Atlanta during the school year. For months...
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Camp All Day, Every Day
A cookie is just a cookie, but a Newton is fruit and cake. A camp is just a camp, but MY CAMP IS THE BEST THING EVER. It doesn’t have the same ring, but you get the idea. [Colemanites] get together...
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Being a Mitzvah Representative
How can a few classes of kids in Atlanta brighten an entire hospital? The Davis Academy’s 4th grade team, interested in making a wellness-related impact in Atlanta and in Israel, raised a lot of money...
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Yom Partisans 2014
5th grade campers with Ruth Bielski Ehrreich Papers were flying and staples were clamping, stickers were delivered, and DVDs were organized. Another summer, and therefore, another fast day was upon us....
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Hot ShoTz and Tefillahpalooza, Part Deux
Back in October, we tried something new at the day school half of my job: Tefillahpalooza. You can read the post I wrote about it on the Canteen. In conversations about how best to #nadiviate (it’s a...
View ArticleThe OTHER Nadiv Educator
As the summer drew to a close, I took a picture with the other Nadiv Educator at my camp. He’s a 6th grader now, and he spends his whole year with me. He’s a full-summer camper at Coleman, a camp...
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Boker Big Bang – Big Business – Sporty Tefillah
I’ve been involved with the Foundation for Jewish Camp for a long time. I’m a Nadiv educator (working in a shared job between URJ Camp Coleman and The Davis Academy, a day school in Atlanta), I’ve...
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Many-Mitzvah Sukkot Moments!
A colleague recently voiced frustration that “mitzvah” has been mis-translated as “good deed” instead of “commandment.” I agreed, griping in tandem. And then…this happened: In the Davis Academy Middle...
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Learning About Judaism Through The Trinity (Yes, That One!)
A big part of my job is working on the interfaith program between my school, The Davis Academy, and a local Catholic school called Marist. It’s also one of the most interesting and energizing parts of...
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Such a Spectacle
Davis academy 8th graders prepare for the volunteering day, holding a fraction of the 9,000 pairs of glasses in my office. My professor asked for students with bad vision to raise their hands. Out of...
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