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The Charlotte Jewish News - April 2014 - Page 9 The Charlotte Jewish Day School Pesach Experience i You know the story well. Ae- eording to the Book of Exodus, Moshe was bom in a time when his people, the Children of Israel, were inereasing in number and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might help Egypt’s ene mies. Moshe’s Hebrew mother, Yoeheved, hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn He brew boys to be killed. He ended up being adopted into the Egypt ian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave-master, Moshe fled aeross the Red Sea to Midian where he tended the floeks of Jethro, a priest of Midian on the slopes of Mt. Horeb. After the Ten Plagues were unleashed on Egypt, Moshe led the Exodus of the He brew people out of Egypt and aeross the Red Sea, after whieh they based themselves at Mount Sinai. It was at this time that Moshe reeeived the Ten Com mandments. The triek for the Judaiea in- straetors of Charlotte Jewish Day Sehool is how to bring these sto ries to life for students and parents alike. With a little ereative inge nuity, the Pesaeh Experienee was bom. Classrooms are transformed into living history museums where teaehers give guided tours; students serve as the memorable eharaeters; and the props, sets and speeial effeets make the aeeounts of Pesaeh so vivid to the heart and mind. The first stop on the tour is along a speeially erafted Nile River, where we see baby Moshe adrift in a basket as his older sister Miriam looks on. Next, we enter a “hands-on” pyramid building site, where guests are invited to build pyramids out of bloeks. This de- piets the hard work and enslave ment of the Jewish people. Soon, Moshe is growing older and we find ourselves with Moshe in the desert where he is reseuing a lost lamb. We heard “Hashem” speak to Moshe, who direeted him to set the Jewish people free. Next, we are witnesses to the ten plagues. Dioramas, Power Points, Board Games are made by the students in fifth grade depieting these plagues sueh as water turning to blood; frogs; siek animals; and people with boils to name a few. In response to the plague of the first bom, people painted their door frames with blood so that the Angel of Death would “pass over” these ehildren. Next, we experi enee the first Seder. Guests eat matzah together quiekly as the lamb is being roasted and Egypt ian soldiers ready for attaek. Not to worry ... Hashem will help the Jewish people. Visitors enter the undersea world of the Red Sea eomplete with fishes and sound effeets. When they arrive on “dry land,” they eelebrate this miraele with song and danee. Finally, after a long walk through the desert, visitors emerge at the foot of Mount Sinai. Moshe appears amidst thunder and lightning and presents The Ten Command ments. Students from Temple Beth El, Ohr Hatorah, Ballantyne Jewish Center, and Temple Israel Reli gious and Hebrew Sehools will be CJDS Charlotte Jewish Day School visiting Sunday morning, April 6. The presehool families are in vited to join us on Friday, April 4, from 1-3 PM, religious sehool students and their teaehers on Sunday, April 6, from 8:30 AM- 1 PM and the general eommunity on Sunday, April 6, from 1-3 PM. If you would like to be part of this historieal experienee, please RSVP at 704-366-3984. Many thanks to our fine Ju daiea staff and Donna Lemer for putting this phenomenal exhibit together. ^ Community News Movie Fundraiser to Raise Money and Awareness for The Shalom Park Freedom School What if 15 years from now a doeumentary was made about the Shalom Park Freedom Sehool? What would our K-5 seholars re- eall about their experienee at Shalom Park’s six-week literaey- based enriehing summer pro gram? How did it infiuenee their lives, and how did the program toueh the lives of Shalom Park volunteers? On Thursday May 1, the Shalom Park Freedom Sehool (SPFS) will show a moving doe umentary at its movie fundraiser at 7 PM in the Sam Lemer Center for Cultural Arts. Tieket sales and proeeeds raised at the event will benefit SPFS whieh will host its fourth annual six-week literaey- based summer program this June 18-July30. The film being sereened this year is From Swastika to Jim Crow, a one hour PBS doeumen tary that tells the story of how his- torieally blaek eolleges in the south during WWII opened their doors to Jewish refugee seholars from Nazi Germany, and how em pathy between the two groups strengthened the bond between teaeher and student, eolleagues and eommunity. Aside from a shared experienee of perseeution, the two eommuni- ties are shown as partners embrae- ing the powerfulness of a good edueation and a devoted teaeher. Through a series of interviews, photographs, and other striking arehival footage, the journey of these two groups is explored. This unfamiliar narrative about Holo- eaust seholar refugees and histor- ieally blaek eolleges will have speeial meaning for those of us living in the South. A brief panel diseussion will highlight three unique perspee- tives about the film and how it re lates to the SPFS program. Rabbi Judy Sehindler will speak about how the Jewish eommunity and Afriean Ameriean eommunity have walked together in their straggles against injustiee based on raee, religion or ethnieity. Ster ling Elementary Prineipal Beth Wardy will deseribe the at-risk students who are ehosen to attend SPFS and the impaet she believes this six week literaey and enrieh- ment program has on the lives of these eeonomieally disadvantaged students. The first SPFS Site Co ordinator and Duke Divinity Sehool graduate eandidate, Kevin Vandiver, will speak about his ex perienee working direetly with the SPFS seholars, volunteers, and teen board during the inaugural summer here at Shalom Park. Tiekets to go on sale in April for $10 at the front desk of the JCC. Light movie refreshments will be served. Come support our Shalom Park Freedom Sehool seholars by watehing this inspir ing doeumentary about Jewish refugee seholars and the life-long bonds that were established be tween them and the historieally blaek eolleges in the south that embraeed them. Please visit www.spfreedom- sehool.org for more information about how to get involved. ^ Success IS available when you know what to do. Safes Development Leadership Skill Development Communication Career Management & Transition What are you waiting for? Call us for your complimentarv consultation: 704-604-1655 WWW. 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