Similarities and differences
After a long journey from Las Vegas, we arrived to a warm welcome in Budapest. We had a chance to meet our partner colleagues over a lovely Kosher dinner. Of course it was wonderful to put a face to ...
After a long journey from Las Vegas, we arrived to a warm welcome in Budapest. We had a chance to meet our partner colleagues over a lovely Kosher dinner. Of course it was wonderful to put a face to ...
After a long trip, and a great night sleep, I woke up ready to meet the students at the Lauder School. I was able to tour the beautiful campus and see students engaged in a number of activities from ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...