The Charlotte Jewish News - November 2013 - Page 12
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Schools
Is It Already November?
Now that we are in November,
we smile at the thought of Thanks
giving and Chanukah oeeurring at
the same time, what some have
now referred to as “Thanks-
givukkah.” This eombination of
two popular holidays, one seeular
and one religious, have ehallenged
Jewish edueators to approaeh
teaehing about both holidays at
the same time. As we juggled the
benefits of teaehing them sepa
rately versus together, we realized
that while this eireumstanee is eer-
tainly onee-in-a-lifetime, it is
nothing new at the Charlotte Jew
ish Presehool for us to eombine
religious and the seeular ideas in
our elassrooms.
CJP teaehers are eontinuously
working on implementing Jewish
values in the elassroom that apply
to the ehild’s everyday lives and
happenings. Children are being
praised for their good deeds on the
Chesed Tree through aets of kind
ness and being a menseh at
sehool. We hope that aets of kind
ness for a presehooler, sueh as
helping a friend who has fallen, or
sharing a snaek translate into more
signifieant aets of performing
mitzvot.
Our teaehers plan eooperatively
by age level. This team planning
involves all of the teaehers eollab-
orating their thematie ideas and
weaving them through our sehool
aeademie eoneepts. For example,
we might be teaehing about the
farm as a thematie unit but will be
eovering the eoneept of number
sense and animals and their habi
tats. Invariably we will always
take the opportunity to ask the
question “What is Jewish about
this theme or eoneept?” This ques
tion alone ensures that we are
staying true to who we are and
what we want our ehildren to be-
eome.
Our speeialist teaehers also
work diligently to ineorporate the
ideals from both religious and see
ular eurrieulum to our presehool-
ers. For the past several years,
Morah Beeea has been teaehing
Thanksgiving as a Jewish holiday
in her Judaiea elassroom by em
phasizing the Judaie value
hachnasat orchim, or weleoming
visitors. Thanksgiving is a holi
day when we invite friends and
family to our table to share a meal
and be together, and we teaeh our
ehildren the proper ways to wel-
eome and treat visitors. Our stu
dents also make signs that read
“Bruchim Haba’im!” whieh
means “Weleome!” so that guests
are warmly invited into our
Thanksgiving feast. These values
also spill over into other speeial
days at the presehool. For exam
ple, we weleome parents and
grandparents into our elassrooms
for Bagels and Bloeks, Tea for
Two, Grandparents Day, and our
weekly Shabbat serviees. Our stu
dents are frequently reminded to
praetiee hachnasat orchim and
weleome their friendly visitors
into our sehool.
Our seienee teaeher. Miss Mar-
eie, merges Judaism with seienee
in her lessons. When students
were learning about the phases of
the moon Miss Mareie also taught
them about the eonneetion be
tween the moon and Rosh
Chodesh, our eelebration of the
new month. Miss Patty, our musie
speeialist, teaehes our students tra
ditional Jewish presehool songs
that bring joy and familiarity. Ad
ditionally, she warms our Shabbat
serviees with her musie and enthu
siasm, eonveying to the students
that Shabbat is simultaneously a
plaee of prayer and a plaee of fun.
At the library, students listen to
stories dramatieally retold by Miss
Debby. She brings to life Jewish
stories, eharaeters, and themes for
our ehildren to enjoy.
In our monthly Judaiea
newsletter, we eneourage parents
to praetiee being Jewish every day
Chariotte Jewish
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with their ehildren and suggest a
Judaie value for them to foeus on
that month. Parents are eneour-
aged to ineorporate their Judaism
into their seemingly seeular every
day lives so they ean see that we
are not just Jewish when we attend
synagogue or say a prayer. We are
Jewish when we live Jewishly.
When we studied Noah’s Ark at
the CJP parents worked on tzar
ba’alei chayim with their kids,
teaehing them how we take eare
of animals. For our tzedakah proj-
eet families sent in old towels and
blankets and animal treats to take
eare of animals at Spay Neuter
Charlotte. Families were eneour-
aged to teaeh their ehildren proper
eare of household pets, and for
those families without pets we
suggested they take their ehildren
on a nature walk to observe God’s
ereatures.
The Charlotte Jewish Presehool
takes pride in our strong eurrieu
lum that has sueeessfully inter
twined both religious and seeular
eoneepts. As we light the meno-
rah on Thanksgiving night we are
reminded that we are not only
Amerieans or only Jews - we ean
sueeessfully intertwine our eul-
tures and traditions, as we do on a
daily basis at the Charlotte Jewish
Presehool.
Learn. Grow. Conneet. with our
staff and families at the Charlotte
Jewish Presehool. For further in
formation on how to enroll your
ehild into our wonderful world of
learning, please eontaet Alyson
Kalik at 704-944-6776 or aka-
lik@shalomeharlotte.org. ^
Havurat Tikvah Celebrates 25th Anniversary
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led the serviees.
In its 10th year, the eongrega-
tion made the deeision to affiliate
with the Reeonstruetionist move
ment. This was seen as a natural
fit sinee its preeepts matehed
many of the prineiples of Havurat
Tikvah. One of the greatest
aehievements was when the havu-
rah purehased its own Torah.
Other havurah members shared
additional memories. Bill Gross
spoke of the life-long friendships
he had made at Havurat Tikvah
and said, “I am in deep wonder
ment at what grew out of the
havurah: meaningful religious ob-
servanees, lessons on Jewish tra
dition and the emergenee of my
personal praetiee of tikkun olam.”
Gathering and supporting its eon-
gregants has always been the eor-
nerstone of how the eongregation
funetions. He remarked that
Havurat Tikvah was there when
he got married and when he lost
his mother.
Pam Crown eommented, “I
treasure my time with the havurah
eommunity .... The warmth of the
members toward neweomers is
outstanding and makes the times
of prayer more meaningful.”
Lainey Millen shared, “For the
first months that we gathered and
prayed together, I was deeply
moved beeause I felt that I had
found my religious home.”
Havurat Tikvah, a eommunity
of hope, has been lay-led and
egalitarian sinee its beginning. It
eontinues to hold to its original
eommitment of providing mem
bers and visitors with an engaging
and spiritual experienee. The
havurah holds monthly Shabbat
serviees and holiday observanees,
adult study, an Israeli film series,
as well as a number of soeial ae-
tion projeets ineluding Room in
the Inn and Projeet Linus.
A eommunity Shabbat serviee
will be held on November 16, 10
AM, at Avondale Presbyterian
Chureh’s Aitken Classroom, 2821
Park Road. Future plans also in-
elude adult edueation programs in
early 2014.
For more information about
Havurat Tikvah - eontaet Mem
bership Chair Brian Feinglass by
email at membership@havurattik-
vah.org, or eall 980-225-5330
or visit www.havurattikvah.org.
Havurat Tikvah and Havurat
Teens Charlotte groups are also on
Faeebook. ^