*Who is “the Gimelest?” We will find out next Friday at our all-school Chanukah Sing! We have been having dreidel competitions in each grade in preparation for the final competition next week.  Below are some pictures of our Upper School students enjoying some good old fashioned dreidel spinning

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*In preparation for Thanksgiving, seventh graders looked for Jewish texts with themes of thankfulness. Each group presented one text that spoke to them.

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Sixth and seventh graders continue to prepare for the re-enactment of the First Zionist Congress in 1897. Students will be representing Syria, Algeria, Austria, the United States and Russia. Based on their research they will answer the question in a debate-style discussion: What should the future of the Jewish people look like?