From Boston to Israel With Love!

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From Boston to Israel with Love!
by Stephanie Rotsky and Ellen Berkowitz






The entire Rashi School community got involved in sending love, encouragement, sweet new year's wishes and a spirited affirmation that we are thinking about you to families living in the southern region of Israel. CJP's initiative - Sweet Wishes for a Sweeter New Year - engaged students and families all over the Greater Boston area during the High Holidays in reaching out and showing our enduring connection and support for Israel & her people through heart-felt beautiful new year's cards. It was a privilege to be in every classroom last month to work with students and teachers to create these cards for Israeli families. Might we even say it felt like a sacred moment...





Dena Rashes, Rashi parent and CJP Israel participant, will be part of an upcoming mission to help hand- deliver these new year's cards to families living in southern Israel. Thank you, Dena!













 Fourth Graders at work...

 In preparation for making new year's cards, we gathered the third, fourth and fifth graders and asked them to think about the mitzvah of Ahavat Yisrael - how do we show our love for Israel?





They responded: We visit Israel, we say prayers for Israel, we learn Hebrew, we sing songs about Israel, we have friends from Israel, we read stories about Israel, we wish Israel peace, we learn with the Shin Shins, we welcome the kids from Leo Baeck in Haifa and Rashi's 8th graders go to Israel....















Kindergarten Students at work...

 We asked Kindergarten students: How are you the same as Kindergarten kids in Israel? They said -among other things - we love to laugh, eat ice cream, go to school, speak Hebrew...we love our families and friends, we love to play and sing, we want friends to get along, we like felafel!



































































Rashi families at work...










Second Graders at work...





 Third Graders at work...










































Eighth Graders at work...












First Graders at work...






















Sixth Graders at work...



































Some more heart felt cards from Boston to Israel with love...
















 




























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