Great experience together!
Every day in Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School I start off the morning with a special engrossment time called Art Zman Kodesh.
In Art Zman Kodesh, I work with my excellent colleague Ben Tellie engaging ...
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Our story
Gabor and Timi received an overview about the responsibilities of the School Board with Rich Handloff the President of the Board. Timi got some new ideas about celebrating Jewish events from the Director ...
Yom HaAtzmaut
Observation lesson with Yaffa Dagoni, level-4. They surprised me with Hungarian sentences. Every kid told me 1 word or sentence in Hungarian.In the 1-st 10 minutes they practiced for Yom Haacmaut.
The ...
Community
We started the Thursday with Zman Kodesh with Liz. We had a great conversation with kids. We discussed the cultural differences between Hungary and USA. They asked many questions about the education, ...
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 ...
Final Reflections
We are currently sitting in the Munich Airport, waiting for our connecting flight back to the States. We have had Shabbat to reflect on our time here in Budapest and we all feel as if we have gained ...
Let’s keep in touch
Last full day. I went with Alan, Glynis and Rachel to the Dohany synagogue this morning. We had been there earlier in the week when we toured the building, saw the memorial and assisted the curator ...
Shevet Achim Gam Yachad
Friday was an abbreviated day, although still very full. I taught four classes during the morning and will genuinely miss the opportunities I had to study with the Lauder students. Afterwards we met ...
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Our story
Gabor and Timi received an overview about the responsibilities of the School Board with Rich Handloff the President of the Board. Timi got some new ideas about celebrating Jewish events from the Director ...
Yom HaAtzmaut
Observation lesson with Yaffa Dagoni, level-4. They surprised me with Hungarian sentences. Every kid told me 1 word or sentence in Hungarian.In the 1-st 10 minutes they practiced for Yom Haacmaut.
The ...
Community
We started the Thursday with Zman Kodesh with Liz. We had a great conversation with kids. We discussed the cultural differences between Hungary and USA. They asked many questions about the education, ...
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 ...
Final Reflections
We are currently sitting in the Munich Airport, waiting for our connecting flight back to the States. We have had Shabbat to reflect on our time here in Budapest and we all feel as if we have gained ...
Let’s keep in touch
Last full day. I went with Alan, Glynis and Rachel to the Dohany synagogue this morning. We had been there earlier in the week when we toured the building, saw the memorial and assisted the curator ...
Shevet Achim Gam Yachad
Friday was an abbreviated day, although still very full. I taught four classes during the morning and will genuinely miss the opportunities I had to study with the Lauder students. Afterwards we met ...