Morah Gawel Class Update

March 15, 2017

Hi All –

FIRST:  PLEASE RSVP for the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan’s Settlers to Citizens Bus T our of Historic Jewish Detroit.  The bus loads at 8:45 a.m. on Sunday, March 26^th at CSZ and leaves PROMPTLY at 9:00 a.m.  WE DO NOT HAVE REGULAR RELIGIOUS SCHOOL ON THIS DAY FOR THE 6^TH GRADE, AS THE KIDS WILL BE ON A FIELD TRIP.   ALL CHILDREN NEED A TOUR WAIVER PERMISSION SLIP.  You can click on the attachment or pick up one from the religious school. *****

We have had an eventful week, as usual.  One of these days I will tell you that it was boring, but I’m guessing no day soon! J  Sunday was Purim, and while we only had 3 kiddos in class, we partied like rock stars.  We had a special day filled with mishloach manot packing; all of the Purim Parcels were donated to Jewish Senior Life.  We also played carnival games with Ramah, made creative Purim Parcel containers in the Maker’s Space, and made hammantashen during chugim.  The entire shul smelled divine with the aroma of chocolate chips and cherry filling. I ate my weight in the forgotten hammantashen and leftover Hershey Kisses. Good times! The clergy put on a rocking Purim Shpiel for us and the Hebrew teachers finished the day off with some Purim learning.  Fun was had by all… all 3 that is!  But we were happy to have so many of you the night before at the Purim carnival.  It was a blast. 

On Tuesday we continued our discussion of antis-Semitism and Jews and how we have been portrayed in the media.  The kids looked at specific advertisements from every 20 years pre and post World War II and looked for the same themes and motifs that we saw in the images we studied last week. This work will culminate in creating some posters to help combat the Anti-Semitic sentiments in our own culture, and then we will move on and study our Exodus unit more in depth.

Looking forward to a WARMER week next week and more learning with you people,

Leah