You may be wondering, what’s going on in Gesher?
Our Jewish Life Cycle study has been enriched by special
sessions with Robin Kahn, who taught
about Jewish education, Cantor Ken
Richmond, who engaged the students in a learning session about Bar/Bat
Mitzvah, and Aaron Brandt who
discussed Jewish life on campus. These
events were very much connected since Jewish education leads to Bar/Bat Mitzvah,
which marks Jewish adulthood within the synagogue community. Students
recognized that as Jewish adults, they have responsibilities including being
counted in the minyan, ritual honors
and making Jewish decisions. Students
began to realize that in the future, it will be their responsibility to make
choices about how they will express their Jewish identities.
We continue to study the weekly Torah portion and to develop
the community Torah study questions for the other classes and to select a
cereal with a connection to the parasha. We are meeting the Prophets with an overview
of the history and the qualifications for a prophet and we have learned about
some texts in Pirkei Avot (Ethics of
the Sages). Recently, we have used those
texts as a vehicle for experimenting with the i-movie app on the i-pads.
Students are excited to create i-movie trailers depicting their
interpretations of their selected teaching from Pirkei Avot.
Gesher students enjoy Sunday mornings beginning in the religious school classrooms assisting students with breakfast
and community Torah study and ending
with the coveted i-pads.
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