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Well, as we all anticipated - our plans for Family Community Service Day must be cancelled for tomorrow (February 7, 2010).
All activities, including visiting resident homes and the bowling at Strike Bethesda are cancelled. We are hoping that we can arrange for make-up snow days at JPDS, and I will do everything that I can to re-schedule the community service opportunities later during the school year. Thank you all so much for volunteering. We will let you know of any make up days as soon as we arrange them with JPDS.
How to have a Secular Humanistic Judaism Snow Day
I am attaching and listing a variety of activities that the Jewish community educators have sent out to all principals - ideas for Jewish activities while you are playing in the snow or house bound. I hope that you are interested in tackling some of these sites with your kids. The Snow Day Lesson Plan (112.73 kB)(click to view or download) is for this week's torah portion, and although it is coming from a Reform congregation, I thought that you might find it interesting. Also, It Could be Worse (10.84 kB)is a great story for this weekend!!
But wait! There's more!...(Click on "Read More") |
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by Rabbi Adam Chalom
It can be comforting to imagine that we are the center of the world. That is, until the world crushes us indifferently like an elephant stepping on an ant.
We do not need another catastrophe on the scale of Haiti’s agony to challenge our trust in cosmic providence; we have seen enough examples through the human experience. If a personality or pantheon intentionally caused or passively allowed this to happen,
they do not care about us. Indeed, the persistence and pervasiveness of human suffering might teach the opposite lesson of religious faith: not that someone up there must like us, but someone must be out to get us!
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