Time is a Luxury
We’ve been privileged to enjoy beautiful weather during our time in Budapest. Yesterday, I spent some time outside by the Lauder Javne play area watching the elementary grade children methodically ...
Getting closer!
In the morning I had a nice casual rehearsal with the 10th graders. We worked on getting selfies from them, and discussed favorite bands and music. I got a great list of Hungarian Bands to share with ...
What’s in a name?
It’s day four of our adventure here in Budapest and we have met many students and seen many sites around this wonderful city. Today we visited a neighborhood synagogue with a memorial to all from ...
Overcoming my homesickness
I woke up this morning homesick. I spent the bus ride to the Lauder-Javne school watching videos of my twin baby boys. I was holding back tears as thoughts began to race; thoughts of the distance from ...
PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUCCESS
A key element of our first step in the Morim Limmud program, a school visit for the faculty, was being paired with a faculty member from the Lauder Javne school. This faculty member is to be your ...
Their Name, Their Identity
Yesterday while in Budapest we visited the Shoes on the Danube memorial. For me, this was the most emotional of the memorials we have visited. To look at the shoes, the boots, the little toddler shoes ...
Stronger together
Day 3 and already I am enjoying saying hello in the hallways to the familiar faces of students and teachers. The faculty and students here at Lauder couldn’t be nicer. They come to the room they set ...
EXTENDED METAPHORS LESSON
In addition to meeting students and connecting through “English as a Second Language” courses, I also was invited to guest teach one literature class. In this class, students read both Hungarian ...
“My Heart is in the East”
Today I had the privilege of teaching 20 of the Lauder-Javne school’s 9th graders. What a great class! Many of the students were interested and engaged as we explored the conflict between following ...
We May Be Missing the Boat
My very first discussion with SOS International was learning about their mission and vision, which strives to enrich next-generation Jewish identity and values through ...
Piecing it together
Had a wonderful rehearsal with the band today! Worked on listening across the band and not just to themselves. Always knowing who has the melody and when, is important and this helps as we follow ...
Creating connections across the world
The Morim Limmud program is a rich journey between students at two Jewish schools across the world. This first step, our faculty visit to Budapest, is laying the groundwork of connection and community ...
Bonds of a community
How do we define Jewish identity? How do we use our voices, individually and collectively, to be agents of change? These were just two of the questions I contemplated throughout the day following ...
“This is Me!”
I had a wonderful introduction to the 5th graders today! This was a fun group of eager learners with a wide range of ability with speaking English. I introduced the concept of Koolulam and revealed ...
How do we make Judaism relevant?
What an incredible experience it was teaching the high school students in Lauder-Javne today! I was excited and fearful walking into each and every lesson. Excited, because of the possibility that my ...
Today was a day of dichotomy, just like the up and down on a trampoline.
I started the day off in a 7th grade ESL class where Lauder students accepted the Great Cup Stack Challenge of 2018 from the Adelson 6th grade students. In this cup stack challenge, students worked ...
Agents of Change
Today at the Lauder school we had a presentation from David Kostelancik, Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy Budapest. During that presentation, Alan M. Reinitz, Chief Executive Officer of SOS International ...
What Hungarian students really want to know about Las Vegas students…
The opportunity to participate in the Morim Limmud program as an educator is a privilege. This multi-step journey begins with a faculty exchange between my school, The Adelson Educational Campus in ...
Home is where the heart is
Kids are the same wherever you go. It doesn’t matter whether you are sitting in Las Vegas or in Budapest, teens all want the same things: to hang with their friends, to be on their phones, and to ...
Happiness all around
My first day at Lauder is a crisp, sunshiney fall day. Literally and metaphorically. It is not lost upon me that the students skip, jump, bounce, and run from place to place or nowhere in particular ...
