Embracing the Jewish culture
One week after a trip of a lifetime, to Hungary, and I am still drowning in work. Neither the school work, nor my friends and family’s lives stopped for me during the trip. Consequently, I have a ...
Category: April 2018: Beth Tfiloh + Scheiber
Differences between our experiences as Jews
Surrounding a crackling campfire at midnight, we sing, dance, eat as friends. Friends that have only known each other for four days but it feels like more. One song, one dance, one s’more after another; ...
Inspirational
It’s weird to transition from vacation back to regular life. It’s something most people go through a few times in their life but not really something we get used to. Despite one of my fellow trip ...
Jewish Identity
It might be a culture or a religion or a mindset or just a set of circumstances but being Jewish will always be an unbreakable connection to a common history, present and future. This was the undeniable ...
What if you had a chance to change the world?
What if you had a chance to change the world? One of the great questions in my favorite literary genre of science fiction is what if you could travel in time and manipulate some small thing, so that ...
Create your own future
“Shabbat Shalom to Julia! . . . . Shabbat Shalom to Zita! . . . . Shabbat Shalom to Abel! . . . . Sha Sha Shabbat Shalom!”
The Shabbat song, incorporating the names of Scheibor Sandor and Beth Tfiloh ...
Gratitude
I would like to express my gratitude for giving me the opportunity to travel to Hungary with my talented colleagues and an outstanding group of BT students for “Part 2” of the Morim/Limmud Project. ...
Now What?
“Now what?” A Hungarian teenager questioned the American Chargé D’affaires of Hungary. Discussing the Hungarian politics, the students at Scheiber Sándor wonder what they can do to change the government’s opinion. A month ago over 100,000 people, including the Hungarian teenagers, protested in Budapest...
I guess you just had to be there
There are moments in life that are hard to explain. Like when the most hilarious thing happens but then when you tell it over to new people they just stare at you. You can’t understand what they didn’t ...
Bridging Jewish communities
Dear Friends,
You are soon arriving home.
This was our third time that we had spent together. The third, but not the last. That is why we can surely be happy and optimistic.
I am sure that all of us think ...
Bearing witness
As someone whose home runs on a well, I appreciate rain. Of course, like most people, I would rather not see precipitation while I’m traveling and certainly not while I’m touring outside. With one ...
Beth Tfiloh students transcend language barrier to teach third-graders in Budapest
The Hungarian students chosen to be part of this exchange all speak English at a high level. Our students ask questions and are learning as many Hungarian words as possible, but there is really no language ...
Impact CAN and IS happening
A year and a half ago when SOS International first met with me at Beth Tfiloh to discuss this program, Alan and Glynis talked about strengthening Jewish communities through strengthening Jewish schools. ...
Journey of new relationships
I once had a pen pal from Italy, and we talked about the differences in our handwriting, our favorite foods, and Iron Maiden. I was twelve years old. This experience lasted no longer than a few letters. ...
Judaism can connect
During the school day our home base is in the school library. Ordinarily the teacher we are paired with is supposed to come to the library and walk us to our class since the school is 4 stories and ...
Don’t judge us by preconceived expectations
The image of a Muslim girl standing on a stage with a Jewish girl appears on the wall that serves as a projection screen in the 7th grade classroom where I am teaching, immediately capturing the attention ...
Participating in the rebirth of Jewish life in Budapest
As I wandered the halls alone it seemed highly unlikely that I would stumble upon the graduation portrait of a woman I had only met two times at Beth Tfiloh. But, as I rounded the corner of the 3rd ...
Why am I Not Good Enough?
The group of 14-year-old students sitting in front of me in their class at SSG watched with intensity the YouTube performance of the Slam Poem “Why am I Not Good Enough?” The poem, which went viral ...
Expectations
Prior to this trip, our second to Budapest and to the Scheiber Sandor school, my partner teachers in Hungary and I exchanged emails about the classes I would be teaching. Amidst class numbers and information ...
Invasion of privacy or does society has a right to know?
In continuation with the theme of citizenship that my co-teacher Zsolt and I brainstormed about before I came here to teach, today I worked with my grade 13 class on a ditto that I use when I end my ...
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Differences between our experiences as Jews
Surrounding a crackling campfire at midnight, we sing, dance, eat as friends. Friends that have only known each other for four days but it feels like more. One song, one dance, one s’more after another; ...
Inspirational
It’s weird to transition from vacation back to regular life. It’s something most people go through a few times in their life but not really something we get used to. Despite one of my fellow trip ...
Jewish Identity
It might be a culture or a religion or a mindset or just a set of circumstances but being Jewish will always be an unbreakable connection to a common history, present and future. This was the undeniable ...
What if you had a chance to change the world?
What if you had a chance to change the world? One of the great questions in my favorite literary genre of science fiction is what if you could travel in time and manipulate some small thing, so that ...
Create your own future
“Shabbat Shalom to Julia! . . . . Shabbat Shalom to Zita! . . . . Shabbat Shalom to Abel! . . . . Sha Sha Shabbat Shalom!”
The Shabbat song, incorporating the names of Scheibor Sandor and Beth Tfiloh ...
Gratitude
I would like to express my gratitude for giving me the opportunity to travel to Hungary with my talented colleagues and an outstanding group of BT students for “Part 2” of the Morim/Limmud Project. ...
Now What?
“Now what?” A Hungarian teenager questioned the American Chargé D’affaires of Hungary. Discussing the Hungarian politics, the students at Scheiber Sándor wonder what they can do to change the government’s opinion. A month ago over 100,000 people, including the Hungarian teenagers, protested in Budapest...
I guess you just had to be there
There are moments in life that are hard to explain. Like when the most hilarious thing happens but then when you tell it over to new people they just stare at you. You can’t understand what they didn’t ...
Bridging Jewish communities
Dear Friends,
You are soon arriving home.
This was our third time that we had spent together. The third, but not the last. That is why we can surely be happy and optimistic.
I am sure that all of us think ...
Bearing witness
As someone whose home runs on a well, I appreciate rain. Of course, like most people, I would rather not see precipitation while I’m traveling and certainly not while I’m touring outside. With one ...
Beth Tfiloh students transcend language barrier to teach third-graders in Budapest
The Hungarian students chosen to be part of this exchange all speak English at a high level. Our students ask questions and are learning as many Hungarian words as possible, but there is really no language ...
Impact CAN and IS happening
A year and a half ago when SOS International first met with me at Beth Tfiloh to discuss this program, Alan and Glynis talked about strengthening Jewish communities through strengthening Jewish schools. ...
Journey of new relationships
I once had a pen pal from Italy, and we talked about the differences in our handwriting, our favorite foods, and Iron Maiden. I was twelve years old. This experience lasted no longer than a few letters. ...
Judaism can connect
During the school day our home base is in the school library. Ordinarily the teacher we are paired with is supposed to come to the library and walk us to our class since the school is 4 stories and ...
Don’t judge us by preconceived expectations
The image of a Muslim girl standing on a stage with a Jewish girl appears on the wall that serves as a projection screen in the 7th grade classroom where I am teaching, immediately capturing the attention ...
Participating in the rebirth of Jewish life in Budapest
As I wandered the halls alone it seemed highly unlikely that I would stumble upon the graduation portrait of a woman I had only met two times at Beth Tfiloh. But, as I rounded the corner of the 3rd ...
Why am I Not Good Enough?
The group of 14-year-old students sitting in front of me in their class at SSG watched with intensity the YouTube performance of the Slam Poem “Why am I Not Good Enough?” The poem, which went viral ...
Expectations
Prior to this trip, our second to Budapest and to the Scheiber Sandor school, my partner teachers in Hungary and I exchanged emails about the classes I would be teaching. Amidst class numbers and information ...
Invasion of privacy or does society has a right to know?
In continuation with the theme of citizenship that my co-teacher Zsolt and I brainstormed about before I came here to teach, today I worked with my grade 13 class on a ditto that I use when I end my ...