Holiday Special October 2016 Edition Find out what our religious school is up to! Monthly Interview: Rabbi Jen By Asa Zengerle & Sadie Winzelberg Q: What did you do on your Sabbat ical? A: Well, sabbatical has many different goals to it. One is to just refresh and renew oneself and the other is to learn new things. So, to renew yourself in body and spirit and intellectually. For body and spirit, I went with my family to the Grand Canyon to celebrate my 50th birthday. I feel that for me, a huge part of my sense of God and spirituality is being in nature so I got to feel a very powerful sense of that at the Grand Canyon. We also got to visit friends which was very renewing. We got to have an interfaith experience as well since we stayed with friends who are Mormon in Salt Lake City, UT. Then I went and did a meditation and movement workshop to calm my mind and focus and center without all of the busyness of answering a bunch of emails and having meetings. Then I did some study about Jewish history because even though I ve studied Jewish history a lot, I just don t have a historical mind. I tend to think more abstractly than concretely about things that happened. I also spent a lot of time studying the ethics of Jewish speech and how we use words.
Q: What is it like fr om now unt il Chanukah? A: It is really, really intense. I m thinking a lot about the spiritual work of the high holidays just in my own life: my own personal issues, how I can be a better person, how I am with my friends and family, and how I ve been in the community. So I m working on a personal level on all of these issues and at the same time I m trying to figure out how to bring the whole community through the holidays. It s also physically intense. It s hard to stand up for a long time and lead service. I also talk a lot, a lot, a lot. Sukkot Fun! by Asa Zengerle Each Sunday school class did different crafts such as aluminum foil sharpie drawings and flying onions to decorate the sukkah! What are our older classes doing? by Miriam Weiler 3rd grade- learning about repentance on Yom Kippur 4th grade- reading Torah stories and learning about sukkot 5th grade- learning how to properly shake a lulav and etrog 6th- researching charities and learning prayers 7th- learning about Jewish values such as friendship and taking care of the environment
Upcoming Events By Adam Weiss Nov. 8th- Election Day Nov. 11th- Veteran s Day Nov. 24- Thanksgiving Dec. 24t h- 1st night of Chanukah Chicken Jokes by Noah Kaufman from chickenjoke.com Q: What did the chicken do when he saw a bucket of chicken? A: He kicked the bucket! Q: Why did the rooster cross the road? A: To cock-a-doodle-do something! Q: What do you call a chicken crossing the road? A: Poultry in motion! Chanukah Fun Facts by Sydney Lippmann 1. On Chanukah we play dreidel. 2. There are 8 days of Chanukah. 3. Parents give kids money (gelt)! 4. Chanukah is celebrated by Jews all over the world!
Comic by Max Winzelberg What have you learned? by the students of the Newspaper elective Adam- How to help make a newspaper. M ax- How to write/draw a comic strip. Sydney- How to say sorry for my sins. M ir iam- The kinds of things that go into newspapers. Dalia- How to work with others to make a newspaper and crossword puzzle. Phoebe- What a newspaper looked like. Asa- That the people that make newspapers have a lot of responsibilities. Sadie- That Rabbi Jen has a lot to worry about over the high holidays.
Crossword Puzzles! Gr ades K-2 by Dalia Madanick Gr ades 3+ by Phoebe Artin
Student Artwork by Dalia Madanick Produced by the Newspaper elective at the Kehillah Religious School Lisa Kaufman Teacher Jillian Breithaupt- Madricha Asher Kirkpatrick- Madrich Phoebe Artin- Kitah Gimel (3 rd grade) Sydney Lippmann- Kitah Gimel (3 rd grade) Ellie Zerden- Kitah Gimel (3 rd grade) Adam Weiss- Kitah Dalet (4 th grade) Sadie Winzelberg- Kitah Dalet (4 th grade) Asa Zengerle- Kitah Dalet (4 th grade) Clara Bradford- Kitah Hey (5 th grade) Miriam Weiler- Kitah Hey (5 th grade) Dalia Madanick- Kitah Vav (6 th grade) Max Winzelberg- Kitah Vav (6 th grade) Joshua Friedman- Kitah Zayin (7 th grade)