The Charlotte Jewish News - April 2015 - Page 6
Youth Visions
Hebrew Highlights - At Hebrew High Students Develop Their Jewish
Identities While Having A Great Time
Where do Charlotte teens go to have a great time and help formulate Jewish identities?
Hebrew High, of eourse. At Hebrew High, elasses, speeial aetivities, and soeial programs
blend together to offer our next generation of Jewish leaders, a full range of ehoiees de
signed to ereate a lifelong eommitment to Jewish eulture and tradition. This is just a taste
of the fun our students have every Wednesday night.
There was a Purim frenzy at Hebrew High this year. Students baked hamentashen,
played games like giant twister, helped at the Purim Carnival, and made mishloaeh manot
for their teaehers. Everyone agreed that we eelebrated in grand style. Thanks to the Student
Couneil for spearheading the Purim madness.
This year’s eighth and ninth grade retreats foeused on eommunity building as Hebrew
High beeame “Camp CHS.” Groups wrote songs or eheers, made banners, and ehose
names to refleet their Jewish selves. Fun ensued, as the teams eompeted in ehallenge after
ehallenge. A favorite ehallenge was the task of making a map of Israel out of iee eream.
Obviously, this took some quiek thinking sinee the medium at hand does not last for very
long. Please visit our Faeebook page to see great examples of our teams’ songs.
The third session for the 5775 sehool year begins this week. Onee again our teaehers
have developed amazingly innovative and interesting ways to engage young Jewish minds.
Anew eourse offering “LOL-The Culture of Jewish Humor” will explore the way in whieh
humor has helped the Jewish people survive. Another exeiting offering is the “Morality
of War and Peaee.” Students will eonfront the diffieult issues surrounding war, paeifism,
and the eurrent world situation, through a Jewish lens.
Hebrew High is a plaee for teens to gain insight into their own Jewish identities, their
eonneetion to their Jewish eommunity and develop a lifelong love of Jewish learning. It
is definitely the plaee to be on Wednesday nights. ^
Accepting applications
for 2015-2016*
704.366.45581 CJDSchool.org
Charlotte Jewish
Day School
Our small class size and ability to differentiate instruction allow our students to succeed and thrive.
Not only did our students outperform ERB national norms for mastery in math, reading and writing,
they consistently met or exceeded other independent school students in these same content areas.
We look forward to meeting your family as you explore what CJDS offers your child.
^Openings limited, based upon grade level. Contact us for details.