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Category Shinshinim

שלום ש"ש

June 1, 2018

On Tuesday, all of UJA’s Shinshinim came to Heschel for a wonderful Group Impact Day. Grades 1-4 experienced an Israeli shuk and Grades 5-8 watched Israeli leaders...
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שלום ש"ש

February 9, 2018

This week in grade 8 we learned about the Ma’abarot in Israel. In the 1950’s the Ma’abarot provided housing for Jewish refugees and Jewish immigrants arriving to...
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שלום ש"ש

January 25, 2018

Moreh Greg and Morah Edna are currently in Israel on a Heads of School Israel Engagement program and for the selection of next year’s shinshinim. They...
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שלום ש"ש

December 13, 2017

This week in Grade 6, we talked about Chanukkah and the reasons why the Maccabees fought for freedom. Students were given difficult situations the Jews may have faced in...
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שלום ש"ש

November 10, 2017

Today in grade 2 we learned about the sense of hearing. Uri brought the Oud, an ancient Middle Eastern instrument, and played it for the students. While listening, the...
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שלום ש"ש

November 3, 2017

Today in Grade 2, we learned about the sense of smell and the blessing בורא מיני בשמים (Boreh Minei Besamim). We also learned about the blessing...
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שלום ש"ש

October 27, 2017

Today in Grade Two Besamim and Bikkurim we continued learning about our senses and focused on taste. We learned how to say taste and the verb tasting in...
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שלום ש”ש

October 20, 2017

We continued to host “Ushpizin” in class this week in grade 7. We learned about the cost of living in Israel and about the tent protests...
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שלום ש"ש

October 11, 2017

Grade 2 students visited the Heschel Sukkah today. Using our senses vocabulary, we described how we smell, taste, touch and see the hadas, arava, lulav and etrog....