Sixth grade families at Temple Israel Center had the opportunity to encounter the Torah portion for their Bnai Mitzvah in a creative way. They could create spoken word poetry with Andrew Lustig, learn with the Senior Rabbi Gordon Tucker, or create…
Last week, during the holiday of Sukkot, I had the opportunity to work with a fantastic group of teenagers at Temple Israel Center in White Plains. I shared with them my Temporary Shelter project, highlighting the stories of two homeless…
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to run workshops at Temple Emanu-El of West Essex and Temple Israel Center of White Plains. Sixth graders in both synagogues studied their bnai mitzvah portions with their parents and pulled inspiration from…
Each year, Temple Israel Center in White Plains selects a theme for the year. This year's theme is zakhor - remembrance. One class of students in the Havurat Torah High School Program studied this theme with Rabbi Gordon Tucker during the…
In October and November, the students and parents at Temple Israel Center's Nursery School made fiber art representations of the days of Creation. Earlier blog posts show the creation of those pieces. Once their work was complete, mine was just…
In my last post, I talked about the beginning of a project with the nursery school students at Temple Israel Center. Each class in the school was assigned one day of Creation to interpret in fabric art. The first week,…
Last week, I started a project with the Nursery School students at Temple Israel Center. Having celebrated Simchat Torah and started reading the Torah from the beginning the week before, it was the perfect time to talk with the students…
Earlier this month, sixth graders at Temple Israel Center in White Plains had the opportunity to complete tallitot based on their Bnai Mitzvah Torah portions. See my earlier blog post to read about the beginning of this process. Julia and…
This morning, Temple Israel Center's sixth graders saw their Bnai Mitzvah Torah Portions for the first time. Together with their parents, they studied their parsha, found a section that spoke to them, and designed and created tallitot based on the…
High school students at Temple Israel Center made inner self portraits last week. Using words that they use to describe themselves as well as words friends and family use to describe them as inspiration, the students each made a piece…