JUDA Austin

This week's JUDA Hebrew School was all about Pesach! We learned about the story of Exodus from an interactive video, with challenges to review; we had a pop-up game to learn about the foods we eat and avoid on Pesach, and concluded with a Ma Nishtana ice-cream party!

Purim is in the air at JUDA Hebrew School!

We explored the story and message of Purim with a BIG book storytelling, and acted out the story with puppets. We also sequenced Purim dominos as we heard the story, and made a Rube Goldberg domino effect to highlight what a child’s Mitzvah accomplishes.

That was such a fun day at JUDA Hebrew School!

We continued the saga of Avraham, his son Yitzchak, and our Matriarch Rivkah. Yitzchak married her because of her tremendous kindness - a very important quality for every Jew - and we had a fun scavenger hunt to find Rivkah, and found different props of the story all over the building.

Yitzchak's mother, Sarah, was the first Jewish woman to light Shabbat candles and bake challah every week, and this was continued by Rivkah. We followed in our Matriarchs' footsteps by making our own challah and learning how to braid the twisted loaves

Today we explored the story of Avraham: When Avraham was a little boy of three he discovered that there was a Creator. G-d blessed Avraham to have children like the stars - and that's us! We are Avraham’s great-great-grandchildren!

We then reflected on what it means to be Avraham’s great-great-grandchildren as we made a special photo keepsake - Shrinky D***s which had our very own picture, attached to a keychain-star!