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September 2020

September 2020

Teaching at Home

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In the New York Times, Jennie Wiener, Professor of Educational Leadership, says of families teaching from home, “This is going to be messy and...
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September 2020

Asking a Beautiful Question

Tracey Gorsky -
Why would a former yeshiva bocher (a young man enrolled as a full-time student in a school of Judaic studies) want to run for...
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September 2020

Spirituality and Religion

Tracey Gorsky -
Last year at around this time, I was in Tel Aviv with my daughter Rebecca, 31, and some of her “baller” friends and the...
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September 2020

Cancel Culture

Tracey Gorsky -
Before sunrise, a group sneaks into the center of a Baltimore park and begins defacing the large statue of George Washington featured in the...
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Kiddish

Reflection on the Days of Awe

Tracey Gorsky -
According to the Jewish calendar, we are approaching the days of “awe.” Hmmm, what does that mean this year? Every day our news seems to...
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Kiddish

Setting the Stage for Success

Tracey Gorsky -
You may soon be back to distance learning, but it will be different than the quick transition in March when attendance was not mandatory...
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Kiddish

Hebrew Academy

Tracey Gorsky -
In these unprecedented times, going ‘back to school’ has taken on different meanings. At the Hebrew Academy in Huntington Beach, students are going to...
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Synergy in the Shtetl

April 2021 Ilene Schneider -
When Jewish people moved to Orange County in the 20th century, they noticed that there were no Jewish neighborhoods. There were clusters of Jewish...
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Fresh Orange Jews

April 2021 JLifeOC -
According to the Jewish calendar, we are in the month of Adar and when Adar enters, joy increases! Why is Adar the month of...
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Orange County’s Jewish History- The Orange County Doll Ladies

April 2021 Dalia Taft -
B’nai B’rith, now known as Jewish Women International (JWI), began the “Dolls for Democracy” program in 1956 in conjunction with the interfaith, interracial organization...
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Remembering the Children of the Holocaust

April 2021 Debbie Meline -
When Pavel Friedmann, a young inmate at the Terezin Concentration Camp in 1942, wrote about the last butterfly he ever saw, he described a...
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