Kahoot
Today I taught the 10-graders on Wallenberg. They worked in groups on different tasks before the watching our film.: Seeking the Righteous One.
I was satisfied with their enthusiasm and after the lessons ...
Challenges
Timi as Head of the school decoration team had a very useful and interesting meeting with David Solomon. Before lunch Gabor and Timi compared the university enrollment systems and the high school curriculums ...
New methods
We spent 15 minutes with the children during the Zman Kodesh. Cili prepared some Hungarian pieces of music: Quimby, the Hungarian Oscar-prized short film: Sing, Fischer Ivan’s Festival Orchestra.
At ...
So much experience
Today I had my 1st lesson where I helped Daniela in the USA. It was brilliant. She explained to them a few things about our labs and then we helped them to be safe during making labs. It was great ...
Voices
On Tuesday we started the day with the literature lesson. We could share some poems of Hungarian poets and writers. It was excellent to find the trailer of the movie “White king”. It was based on ...
All in a days work
On Tuesday Gabor and Timi visited the different Minyanim in the school. It was a special experience for both of them. They went to a literature class, where Gabor made an exciting experiment: Edgar ...
Perfect day
At the observation of the Hebrew lesson the teacher Hani Abo-Awad and the children were very cooperative.
They learned about the food, and I really enjoyed their playing: they ordered food in a restaurant. ...
A new experienceful week
One gift of our time is: at morning we can be at Budapest and at the evening we can be in Washington. The one bridge is the hetero-topic space of the airplane, that connect more space and time layers, ...
Big Experience
We arrived on 22-nd of April to USA for our Big Experience with Glynis and Alan.
We had a heavy rain , but we were really excited to meet our partner teachers.
In the 1-st evening we had a great American ...
Intense but fruitful
This day was very intense both mentally and emotionally. It was the Holocaust Memorial Day in the school. Since for both Gabor and Timi had Holocaust victims and survivors in their family Paul invited ...
Collaborating
I was very happy to meet my new colleague, Ortal. She was very kind and very helpful, since the 1st moment she was very opened to me.I had an opportunity to be in the Hebrew lesson of our 1-st day.The ...
Inspirational
We took off on 22th of April at 7 o’clock in the morning and we landed around 14:30. Our flight was quite long but it was also nice, actually I felt it shorter, than it was. Glynis was waiting for ...
Welcome
After our rainy arrival and warm welcome from Glynis on Saturday, we had the perfect American dining experience in Silver Diner, where we had the best milkshakes in the world. We had a great weather ...
A special place
Eight years ago, Gan Balagan, the Sofia Jewish Early Childhood Center in Bulgaria began with 4 children. Today the school has 70 children enrolled and occupies three floors of the five story Sofia ...
A real education!
What an amazing experience it has been in Budapest. As my time here quickly comes to a close, I am starting to reflect and understand the importance of our time here at the Lauder Javne High School ...
Jewish identity
Today’s teaching could not have been better. The students were engaged and eager to explore identity, their own and their Jewish identity.
First hand
Experience Diane’s classes here
Leviatan
This is an old place, filled with layers of time – remnants, some cherished and others just there or even forgotten. And with time the built environment crumbles, loses meaning and transforms into ...
Kodesh time
I woke up at 1:30 a.m. in the morning, after only several hours sleep. After trying to go back to sleep, I called home. My life partner Steven listened to me struggle with how to proceed. He reminded ...
Our inner Hungarian Jew
Last September, when our Budapest-bound group met for the first time, I realized that although I was being invited because of my skill as an educator, this trip featured a strong Jewish focus on cultural ...
