Hello 7th Grade Families,
This past week our class started a unit on respect for
the elderly. We had a great program led by Barb Giles (who works for Jewish
Senior Life and is a fellow CSZ congregant), in which the students looked over
text from the Torah about our responsibility to the elderly and learned to
empathize with the elderly by experiencing what many of them go through every
day. Just a couple of examples, Barb brought in glasses with vaseline/pinholes
to simulate macular degeneration and cataracts, and asked the students to try
and pick up coins wearing thick gloves to simulate arthritis. It was a very
meaningful experience which stimulated conversation about what the older people
in our own lives truly mean to us.
On Tuesday, we looked over the Haggadah as a class in preparation
for Pesach. We also took part in a school-wide chametz scavenger hunt around
CSZ. Hopefully through their studies your children will be able to contribute
in a meaningful way to you family's seder.
Happy Passover to you all, and may this holiday bring
with it redemption and peace for all of us and all of Israel.
Chag Sameach.
David and Erin
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