5th Grade Judaics Blog

We started January with our new unit on Achrayut/Responsibility. In our first lesson we discussed the things we feel responsibility toward in our lives (family,environment, school, friends, etc.) and then made a pie chart to visually represent them. We also  learned from the examples of famous Jewish Americans, such as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who modeled taking responsibility for others and standing up to injustice. Most students...Read more...

Dear Families,

Last week we finished our unit of study called b’tzelem Elohim בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים, which translates to “in God’s image.” Our lessons are summarized below.

Students learned the term “in the image of God” to mean that each person is valuable. They encountered classic Jewish stories and phrases that reinforce the value of treating every person with dignity: not being judgmental and...Read more...