Because it’s the Hebrew month of Adar and Jewish tradition encourages us to not take ourselves too seriously and have a little fun I’ve been thinking of ways to spice up some of the weekly prayer services we have at The Davis Academy. Last week we did something so fun and so simple it actually […]
Archives for February 2015
Making memories
During the month of February every 5th grader at The Davis Academy will chant Torah for the first time. The “5th Grade Torah Services” are one of my favorite things to be a part of at Davis. There’s nothing quite like dancing a hora with a child after he/she has successfully read from the Torah […]
Some kind of wonderful
A friend of mine posted a question on Facebook that resonated with me. She wrote, “Do you ever ask yourself: I wonder just how wonderful we can make this life?” I do. I wonder just how wonderful we can make this life. I also wonder how life can be so wonderful without us having to […]
A shattered universe
Last week I woke up to the devastating news that Michael, the younger brother of one of my closest childhood friends, had passed away. His death was completely unexpected and all the more tragic because he was literally ripped from this world. He leaves behind his loving parents, his sister, his brother-in-law, young nieces, and […]
Southern Snow
This week we had our first (and last?) snow flurries in Atlanta. I was walking down the hallway to visit a teacher when I saw one, two, then 10 kids running by, throwing on their coats as they ran. Once they’d seen snow flurries outside their classroom window the teacher’s lesson plan was put on […]
The Perspective Gap
Working as I do at Reform Jewish day school there’s a phenomenon I encounter pretty frequently. I’ve started calling it “the perspective gap.” The perspective gap exists whenever two perspectives are so vastly different that the two holders of those perspectives can’t see what the other person sees. Why has working at a Reform Jewish […]