Art & culture around the world
Through my amazing summer program, I got to go on a few great site visits to experience different houses of worship and participate in some beautiful events. The sites may fluctuate a bit year to year (if you are planning on attending in the future) but this is the general idea: Bronx Lourdes Grotto The [...]
Matisyahu has been on repeat this weekend at our house 🙂 and I finally got to visit Crown Heights, the Hasidic community he is from, a few weeks ago while in NYC. Also, he is one of the FEW musicians I've seen live. This past year he played at the House of Blues, Orlando! JMF Introduction [...]
We explored Brooklyn this past weekend and interestingly enough one of my Humanities students did a blog post on the Jewish Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Perfect, huh!? JMF Introduction to Hasidism Hasidism, which is translates to “pious ones,” was a movement that came from Orthodox Judaism and was founded by Rabbi Israel Ben Eliezer. After [...]
This student series post is by an old AP Art History student who took Humanities afterwards and so she smartly used her AP knowledge of the Stele of Hammurabi to write this great blog post comparing it to the Ten Commandments. JMF “An Eye for an Eye Makes the World Go Blind." There are many [...]
Our school just stared a Jewish Student Union Club (JSU) and I was so incredibly excited to hear about it so I went to their first meeting and then offered to co-sponsor it by the end. You already know my obsession with Jewish Holidays (The Sabbath, Purim, Hanukkah) but this club is about so much more than [...]
Although I just finished Judaism in Humanities, I didn't really share much on here. This is a blog post from one of my students last year on the Jewish day of rest. I encourage students to write outside of their personal religious traditions so that they can learn something new and then that gives them [...]
In honor of the start of Passover tonight, I've got a medieval Jewish book review! I was first introduced to this wonderful trilogy by my Jewish roommate in college (the same one who introduced me to Purim) and I picked up the other two books quiet recently in preparation for my units on Medieval Europe [...]
