Greetings!
| Topic of the Month: A Sweet New
Year |
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During This Special Time
The Ten Days
of Repentance--from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur--is a time
that lends itself to serious family discussion. During that
time, we face each other and ask for--and grant--forgiveness.
This period of time culminates on Yom Kippur with a heightened
sense of truly pleading for life. We experience the power of
the questions we have been asking for the past ten days: What
is the nature of our family relationships? What would we like
to change in the way we relate to one another? How can I grow
as a person? How can I better live in relationship to God? How
can I do my part to bring healing to a broken world? How can I
be a better parent and partner?
Click on the link
below to learn of some activities you may want to try to help
yourself answer some of the above questions.
http://www.jewishfamily.com/jc_a.php?
text=http://www.jewishfamily.com/jc/holidays/yom_kip p
ur/family_activities.txt
Sukkot Fun
Sukkot is the holiday of the
harvest, where we decorate our temporary huts with beautiful
vegetables, colorful gourds and fragrant fruits that we bring
in from the fields. Perhaps best of all, we eat our meals
under the see-through roof so we can watch the stars as we
dine. The meals we eat in our Sukkah should reflect the idea
that G-d has been good to us and provided us with all that we
need for our sustenance. Click the link below for some
delicious and healthy recipes to help celebrate the holiday.
Hag Sameach.
http://www.jewishfamily.com/jc_a.php?
text=http://www.jewishfamily.com/jc/holidays/sukkot/h
arvvestrecipes.txt
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| Upcoming Events in Professional
Development |
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PEJE Leadership Assembly October 11-12,
2004
Featured guest: Senator Joseph Lieberman on "Why
Education Matters in America Today" Day school professional
and volunteer leaders are invited to this national event in
Boston featuring expert- led workshops and opportunities for
networking throughout the day school movement. Topics include:
fundraising, leadership and governance, educational
excellence, advocacy and marketing, and admission.
Contact Bunny Shuman at bunny@peje.org for more
information.
JSkyway
Registration now open for Fall
Semester: October 21 - December 23, 2004
- Teaching with Technology: Enhancing and Embracing New
Practices
- Effective Classroom Strategy: From Skills to Success
- Teaching Jewish Values Using BabagaNewz
- Assessment Strategies: Beyond Grades and Quizzes
Register online at www.jskyway.com
JSkyway
will be at the Jewish Community Day School in Watertown, MA on
October 18th, talking about online learning.
If you
think your school might be interested in a presentation or
workshop from JSkyway, please contact Lindsey Fieldman at
lfieldman@jflme
dia. com
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| Your JSkyway Community |
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And The Winners Are!!!!
Everyone should
have received an invitation by e-mail to share their Holiday
secrets and be entered in our contest to win a feature spot in
this month's E- letter and a FREE JSkyway online course of
their choosing. Although all of the submissions were
wonderful, we have narrowed it down to three people whose
words made us smile!
Congratulations to:
"My family has a tradition of wishing for a sweet new
year with chocolate chip challah. We roll out a long rope of
dough for round challah. Then, we imbed a row of chocolate
chips in the rope and coil it into a round challah. After it
bakes, the chocolate is swirled through the bread - Yum. The
original idea for chocolate chip challah came from Collette
and Danielle in Santa Fe, NM.
Another family ritual we
have is a Yom Kippur morning snuggle with all the kids in our
bed. Then we take the opportunity to ask each other for
forgiveness."
-submitted by Ellen Ben-
Naim
"After the services I visit local hospitals
and blow the shofar for the Jewish patients. I've had some
real touching experiences."
-submitted by Moishe Rodman
"Several years ago, my husband found out that he
had Jewish Italian relatives from the Sienna region of Italy.
Since then I have tried to incorporate some of the recipes
from that region into our holiday celebrations. This year I
tried a new one and it was a winner: Sweet and Sour fish.
Fish cakes:
1 lb Hake, .5 lb whitefish fillet,
.5 lb pike fillet, all coarsely chopped together in a food
processor. Mix with 2 eggs (or 1/2 cup Eggbeaters), 1/2 cup
matzoh meal. Form into 2 inch patties and brown in a little
bit of olive oil.
Sauce:
Thinly slice 1 large
onion, and saute in 1 tsp of olive oil. Add 3 tbs pignoli
(pine) nuts, 2 tbs raisins, 1/3 cup white wine vinager, 1/3
cup white wine. Simmer for a few minutes, and then pour over
the fish cakes.
Refrigerate for a few hours or
overnight, Serves 8 as an appetizer course.
-submitted by
Carol Congedo
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| A Better You |
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Book Review
This new year, you should
take time out to relax and pay attention to not only what the
New Year means to you but also to the people around
you.
Shanda: The Making and Breaking of a Self-
Loathing Jew
By Neal Karlen
This later-in-life
interest in religion is the subject of Neal Karlen's furious,
funny and moving memoir about religious identity, Shanda: The
Making and Breaking of a Self-Loathing Jew.
But
Karlen's hilarious riffs about religion aren't so much about
what it means to be Jewish, as they are about what it means to
be human-and there's where he really hooks me, because this
isn't just a Jewish concern, but a concern of every person.
What does it mean, and what does it take, to be a mensch-a
good person? How do you fit into the larger world?
To
read more of the review go to: http://www.jbooks.com/nonfiction/index/NF_Leavitt_Kar
len.htm
IDEAS???
We would love to hear your feedback on
our current E-letter and requests for future issue topics!
What do you want to see in the next JSkyway E-letter? Email
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