Category Archives: Jewish Studies

During Jewish Studies today, we wrote our first blog post about a Mitzvah that we learned from Avraham in Parshat (Torah portion) Vayera.  We also learned to use the Hebrew keyboard and incorporate Hebrew into our blog post. Please go … Continue reading →

We are so excited to share our first Hebrew ebooks with you.  Each student in the class wrote an “About Me” Hebrew book.  Morah Liat photographed the pages in the book and then each student recorded themselves reading their story. … Continue reading →

The Magen David Adom Mitzvah Chapter of Jacksonville partnered with another Florida chapter to purchase an ambulance which will be shipped to Israel. After months of waiting, the ambulance is finished and we were able to tour it today.  Thank … Continue reading →

Today we had a party to celebrate the end of our unit of Parashat Lech Lecha.  Our special guest was Rabbi Olitzky.  We played a game similar to “Who is smarter than a third grader”.  The students quizzed Rabbi Olitzky … Continue reading →

For the past two weeks the Torah portions have been about building the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and the special clothing worn by the Kohanim and specifically the Kohen Gadol.  To learn more about the layout of the Mishkan we played an … Continue reading →

2/11     Rosh Chodesh Adar – wear a silly hat   2/19    2:45 p.m. Baking Hamantachen (אוזני המן) 2/25    9:30 a.m. Costume parade & contest followed by a Purim Schpiel

Purim is just around the corner.  Before we begin our Purim unit we spent some time reading the library books from the Purim unit in Kitah Bet.  This was a great way to recall some of the information we learned … Continue reading →

Today we spent the morning outside at Tree Hill.  This post is a collaboration of the entire Kitah Gimmel.   We went to a stream with our guide.  Our guide Justin told us that this little stream used to be … Continue reading →

This week in Kitah Gimmel we had a lesson about Gematria (Each Hebrew letter has a numerical value so a word is equated with a different word because the two words have the same numerical value).  Since Tu B’Shevat is coming, … Continue reading →