Bruriah students welcomed the upcoming holiday of Sukkos with creativity, excitement and meaningful hands-on activities. Ninth and 11th grade students put their creativity to work making adorable and delicious edible sukkahs, while the tenth grade enjoyed a lively round-robin Ushpizin game that brought learning and fun together. Twelfth grade students created beautiful Sukkah decorations, adding […]
Freshmen at JEC High School gathered Wednesday for the second of 21 sessions in Freshman Foundations, the school’s year-long weekly program designed to help ninth graders navigate the transition to high school. The session opened with a review of the previous week’s challenge, in which students set personal goals and tracked their successes and struggles […]
This year’s theme at the JEC Lower School is “BAM: Be A Mentch!” Each month, the students will focus on a different middah that helps them grow in their mentchlichkeit. This month, they are focusing on Kavod — Respect. The younger students read A Little Spot of Respect and participated in an activity reinforcing the […]
JEC’s Early Childhood students are getting ready for Sukkot with lots of hands-on learning and creativity! The Juniors learned all about the lulav, etrog and sukkah, sang songs about building a sukkah and shaking the lulav, and even had the chance to take turns shaking the lulav themselves. They have also been busy creating beautiful […]
At Bruriah’s first Lightning Lishma of the school year, students gathered for an evening designed to help them pause, reflect and get into the right mindset ahead of Yom Kippur. Their featured speaker was Rabbi Gedaliah Jaffe, father of freshman Eliana Jaffe and Rabbi of Congregation Ahavas Yisrael in Edison. Rabbi Jaffe shared a powerful […]