Shabbat Deliveries
This week we did shabbat deliveries. We delivered to 15 people. The 5 people my group did we all very happy. We gave them challah and grape juice. This was an act of גמילות חסד because we gave 5...
View ArticleEthical Will
Dear, Billy Billy you need to be more careful about what you do. You should not do drugs or anything like that. I also think that you should do Gods will. That means that you should do many mitzvahs...
View ArticleThank you 1st Responders
Thank you for all you do in our community. Thank you for keeping us safe and helping us when we need it most. Have a happy holiday.
View ArticleChristmas For KIds
Hillel taught us to never separate ourselves from the community. This week we gave christmas gifts for kids who couldn’t have them. This made feel very good and nice inside because I gave someone...
View ArticleRuby
Today in class we watched a movie about Ruby Bridges. She was one of the first black children to go to a white school. The movie was about her experience and how she got through it. We watched her...
View ArticleWalk On By
For this journal we had to watch a video called walk on by and say why we think it had to do with homeless people. I have a few reasons. The first is that she kept saying walk on by as in she walks...
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Planting vegetables
Today we planted vegetables at The Bridge. We planted them for kids who don’t have easy access to vegetables. We did this so that they would be able to have a healthy dinner. It also relates to the...
View ArticleShavuot
Soon it will be Shavuot. Shavuot celebrates us getting the Torah. It is ironic that our dear friend Scott, thats what everyone called him, will be honored during this time as a teacher of Torah. I...
View ArticleHoly
This week’s parsha begins with the words: “You shall be holy, for I, the L-rd your G‑d, am holy.” To me this means I few things. The first thing that I think is: Wow thanks, I love that compliment....
View ArticleHelping The Homeless
At the end of the school year we were giving a bag of food and instructed to give it to a homeless person. We were supposed to take it with us when we went places and find someone to give it to. I...
View ArticleHelping the People In Poverty
Recently we took food to the MaliVai Washington Foundation. We gave around one-hundread and eighty bags of food to them. MaliVai Washington was a famous tennis player who grew up in Jacksonville. He...
View ArticleWilling To Take Charge
SPOILER ALERT Recently we watched Big Hero 6 in the middle school. Big Hero 6 is a movie about this kid who wants to go to nerd school (college). His brother goes to Nerd School and made a robot...
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Helping The Elderly and Hanging with the Firemen
Recently we delivered honey cakes to the elderly. We gave them to people we knew and people we didn’t know. We also gave them to my grandparents. Last year I gave to people in an apartment complex,...
View ArticleHelping and Forgiving
This week is the week in-between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. That means its time to give to people and to forgive people. I’m going to share how I gave and forgave. So lets start with saying sorry...
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Be Happy!
Subkot is right around the corner now. In Sukkot we are commanded to be happy. I think we are commanded to be happy for a few reasons. My first reason is that in all these holidays we are commanded...
View ArticleRemembering the Dead
On Shmini Atzeret we add a special memorial service called the Yizkor. I believe we add a service about remembering the dead for one reason. We don’t want to be forgotten when we are dead so don’t...
View ArticleChapter 17 of Stuck in Neutral
SPOILER ALERT: Recently our class read the book stuck in neutral and we were told to right chapter 17 (the book had 16 chapters). Please read the book before you read this post. If you ignore that...
View ArticleHelping Clean a Cemetery
This week we did a mitzvah by helping clean graves. We did a mitzvah by respecting the dead. That is a mitzvah because maybe no one is there for them so we have to be there for them. We cleaned a...
View ArticleThanksgiving
This week we have done, and will do many projects for thanksgiving. On fir day we sorted through food that was donated. Then we put it into bags that we were going to give out to people. Next we...
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Tanach
Recently at our school we had a program about why learning about the Tanach is important. The Tanach is basically where all the stories we read in synagogue are from. It is also where most of the...
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