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Charlotte Jewish News - February 2017 - Page 17 School L’Dor VaDor: Grandparents Participate with Preschoolers at CJP By Rebecca Weiner, Judaica Specialist Every February at the Charlotte Jewish Presehool we look forward to weleoming some of our most important visitors of the year - Three generations enjoying Shabbat to gether on Grandparents Day. From left to right: Francine Frank, Alfred Frank, Steve Frank with granddaughter Nora Amo in the center. grandparents. Our student’s grand parents eome from near and far to spend the morning learning with (and from) their grandehildren. It’s also a time for grandparents to go baek to presehool themselves as they partieipate in morning rou tines and aetivities that demon strate how mueh their grandkids have learned this year. Our students proudly walk their grandparents or speeial visitors to their elassroom where they ean show off their work that teaehers have on display. As visitors settle into their grandehild’s elassroom, teaehers lead a very speeial eirele time with everyone. Some teaeh ers even prepare a song for the students to sing for their grandpar ents. After eirele time, our stu dents and their visitors work together on a eraft and ereate something together before going to our weekly Shabbat serviee. Shabbat is a high-energy Judaie experienee that our students share with their grandparents. They exeit- edly sing every word in our serviee, giving their visitors the opportunity to kvell at all they have learned about being Jewish. From Bim Bam to Oseh Shalom stu dents are eonfidently partie- ipating in the serviee that Miss Patty and Morah Beeea lead eaeh Friday, exeept this time they have guests to partieipate alongside them. So, what makes Grandparents Day so speeial? Aside from hav ing a fun time with their grandkids for a morning, as Jews we have a strong obligation to honor our eld ers. We are eommanded in Leviti- eus 19:32, “You shall rise before the aged and show deferenee to the old.” God demands that we honor the life experienees of those who eame before us by showing them respeet. What does that re- speet look like? At the CJP, def erenee to our elders happens when they walk through our doors and we ean honor them through wel eoming them into our elassrooms and guiding their partieipation with their grandehildren through out the morning. Furthermore, Ju daism emphasizes the Judaie value of I’dor vador, from gener ation to generation. Traditions are passed from our grandparents to our parents and then to us, whieh we then pass on to our ehildren. On Grandparents Day, our presehoolers demonstrate I ’dor vador. As they eover their eyes to sing the Shema in eirele time and happily engage in our Shabbat serviee, eaeh student is displaying the strong Jewish eontinuity that their grandparents so greatly de sire. Our hope is that Grandparents Day inspires older generations to eontinue to be involved in the Jewish edueation of their kids and grandkids. While at CJP our stu dents learn daily blessings and de- velopmentally appropriate Judaie values, families are responsible for reinforeing these eoneepts and praetiees in the home. We model that kids understand and ean par tieipate in Jewish praetiees and rit uals from a very early age, and show grandparents how they ean be involved in their progeny’s Jewish edueation. After all, our parents and grandparents are the only links we have to our family’s traditions from the past. It is from them that we learn our Bubbe’s brisket reeipe for Pesaeh, or the seeret ingredient in the family Challah reeipe. At the CJP, we strive to not only involve Jewish families in Jewish aetivities at our sehool and on Shalom Park, but to provide a bridge between sehool and home so that individual fami lies are empowered to provide the foundation for Jewish praetiees in eaeh of their homes and eontinue traditions set forth by our anees- tors. ^ Legacy Story: The Cyglers (Continuedfrom page 5) throughout the weekdays, I was now able to observe Shabbat and attend synagogue regularly. I beeame involved in our synagogue. Temple Israel Center of White Plains serving on the Board of Trustees, eo- ehairing High Holiday Seating for fifteen years and aetively engaging in Lifelong Learning. In 2008, we began eonsidering a move in pursuit of a retirement lifestyle. We didn’t know mueh about Charlotte, nor did we know anyone who was more than a “friend of a friend” but our first impressions were positive and we beeame exeited to join the eommunity. We waited until our two ehildren were finished with sehool and moved in the middle of 2011. From a Jewish perspeetive, Charlotte gave us what we were looking for and more. Temple Israel provided us with a soeial, spiritual eonneetion whieh was an important part of our transition to the eity and the South. Shalom Park was a key selling point. In the past five years, we have met many wonder ful friends and Temple Israel has beeome family. We have found the right plaee for us and have been em- braeed by this eommunity. We have also tried to wel- eome others in the same way that others weleomed us. Leaving a legaey gift is a great way for us to give baek to Charlotte. We hope to eontinue to provide the young people of today and tomorrow with the same opportunities that we were lueky enough to ex perienee. This is another way for us to ensure the eontinued vibraney of Temple Israel and Jewish life in Charlotte. 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