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 ...
Category: March 2017: de Toledo + Lauder
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 ...
Fighting Off My Attempts to Fight Off My Instincts
My teaching went fine, as it was, but I apprehensions that I had from the first time I started preparing resurfaced. Why is it that I am here? How do I serve the Lauder Javne Iskola and, especially, ...
“If you will it, it is no dream.”
Sometimes in the US, it feels as if real change is not possible. Sometimes it seems things are the way they are and there’s not much one person can do.
But being here has made it clear to me that ...
Time dissolves
Time dissolves, with the warmth of genuine connection. Today was such a moment sitting with my friend Agi -my very old friend, but still not so old. When met twenty-five years ago, she was still in ...
Excited, energized and overwhelmed
Welcome to Budapest
My sense of excitement and wonder had been at increasingly high levels as this journey approached. What was the country like? The people? The Lauder school that I would be teaching ...
Best classes yet today at school.
Had a double class period with a group of students who do not like to write. Talked a lot about why writing is important in many ways beyond the reasons they had heard before, stressing the personal ...
Interchangeable
Today was the first day with the kids at Lauder.
But first we heard an orientation about the school overall. Fascinating, especially the founder, Anna. I think what struck me most of all though was ...
My First Day at the Lauder Javne Iskola
We arrived at the Lauder Javne Iskola, and we were greeted warmly. The night before we met our school counterparts over dinner. Today they welcomed us onto their home campus. My counterpart is Andras ...
Arrival in Budapest and Discovery of My Mission
I arrived in Budapest with four outstanding educators who are my colleagues at de Toledo High School in West Hills, California, before Shabbat which gave us time to get somewhat acclimated to Budapest. ...
A Gem
Budapest – Early Sunday Morning jog on old and kind of hard to run on, stone streets. Beautiful with memories of other similar places I’ve been. Cities that are not too far from here -like Vilna ...
Third Time’s A Charm
...
Transformative experience
We arrived Friday in Budapest and have been able to spend the past few days becoming acquainted with this fascinating city. Although it’s only been two days, it feels like Rome or Paris in the 90s. ...
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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 ...
Fighting Off My Attempts to Fight Off My Instincts
My teaching went fine, as it was, but I apprehensions that I had from the first time I started preparing resurfaced. Why is it that I am here? How do I serve the Lauder Javne Iskola and, especially, ...
“If you will it, it is no dream.”
Sometimes in the US, it feels as if real change is not possible. Sometimes it seems things are the way they are and there’s not much one person can do.
But being here has made it clear to me that ...
Time dissolves
Time dissolves, with the warmth of genuine connection. Today was such a moment sitting with my friend Agi -my very old friend, but still not so old. When met twenty-five years ago, she was still in ...
Excited, energized and overwhelmed
Welcome to Budapest
My sense of excitement and wonder had been at increasingly high levels as this journey approached. What was the country like? The people? The Lauder school that I would be teaching ...
Best classes yet today at school.
Had a double class period with a group of students who do not like to write. Talked a lot about why writing is important in many ways beyond the reasons they had heard before, stressing the personal ...
Interchangeable
Today was the first day with the kids at Lauder.
But first we heard an orientation about the school overall. Fascinating, especially the founder, Anna. I think what struck me most of all though was ...
My First Day at the Lauder Javne Iskola
We arrived at the Lauder Javne Iskola, and we were greeted warmly. The night before we met our school counterparts over dinner. Today they welcomed us onto their home campus. My counterpart is Andras ...
Arrival in Budapest and Discovery of My Mission
I arrived in Budapest with four outstanding educators who are my colleagues at de Toledo High School in West Hills, California, before Shabbat which gave us time to get somewhat acclimated to Budapest. ...
A Gem
Budapest – Early Sunday Morning jog on old and kind of hard to run on, stone streets. Beautiful with memories of other similar places I’ve been. Cities that are not too far from here -like Vilna ...
Third Time’s A Charm
...
Transformative experience
We arrived Friday in Budapest and have been able to spend the past few days becoming acquainted with this fascinating city. Although it’s only been two days, it feels like Rome or Paris in the 90s. ...